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The first is the Master Morality, in which an aristocratic class designates itself as "good" and then, as an afterthought, designates the outsiders to that aristocracy - the plebeians, the barbarians, the foreigners - as "bad." This mode of moral valuation is therefore what Nietzsche calls "self-legislating." The core concepts of the master morality are "good" and "bad," not "good" and "evil." The master morality begins from the valuation of "what I am is good, what is equal to me is good, and whatever is beneath me is not even worth consideration."
Nietzsche's example of this mode of valuing is the pagan Greek, who celebrated physical beauty, worldly accomplishment, and wealth. For them, arrogance, ambition, and cunning were not vices, but virtues.