Beast of prey#
Summary#
Nietzsche employs the beast of prey as a metaphor for vital, powerful human specimens who are fundamentally misunderstood by moralists. In Beyond Good and Evil, he argues that figures like Caesar Borgia represent the healthiest of tropical monsters and growths, not diseased or morbid specimens as conventional morality would have it. Nietzsche suggests that moral condemnation of such predatory natures stems from a timidity that favors temperate, mediocre types over the vigorous and dangerous.