Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the imposing European philosopher of his day. The play dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche shows that the Christian world is permeated with false piety and infected with a "slave morality." With ingenuity and energy, he moves from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose his own "will to power" on the world.