Species and Morality

The existence of 'Morality' presupposes 1. There are choices to be made in behavior, and 2. Some choices are better than others.  Thus, 3. There must be a criterion for determining the superiority of one course of action over another.  Now, given that an agent is part of the human species, the interest of the latter is the criterion for choosing.  However, typically lacking in practice are the awareness that one is actually functioning as a part, rather than as an isolated entity, and adequate knowledge of what course in fact is best.  Nietzsche, at the outset of The Gay Science, agrees that Morality is a means to the promotion of species interests.  But, because he conceives the individual member as antithetical to, not a part of, the species, and Representation as antithetical to Reality, rather than as consisting in degrees of adequacy to the latter, he conceives Morality to be a ruse of the species designed to lure members to promoting its interests.   He, thus, cannot recognize that Morality can be a transparent species-promoting program.