Morality, Will to Live, Will to Power

Nietzsche's departure from traditional Morality begins by his challenging not any of its past contents, but the hitherto unexamined premise that it is an end in itself.  Early, influenced by Schopenhauer, he proposes that 'Morality' is at the service of the Will to Live--an illusion that gives 'meanimg' to Life, and therefore makes it 'worth living'. Later, with the supplanting of the Will to Live by the Will to Power, he reconceives Morality as a mode of the latter, with two different implementations--as a program of Self-Overcoming, i. e. 'Master Morality', or as a weapon of subjugation of rulers by the ruled, i. e. 'Slave Morality'.  Now, unclear in his later phase is whether or not either variety is still illusory, as is that of his earlier phase.  Thus obscured in the controversies generated by Will to Power Morality is whether or not Morality is also at the service of a species instinct, which is what the Will to Live is.  Also therefore lost is the possibility of considering that Evolving is the Self-Overcoming of a Species.