Abstract
Abstract Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals is a singularly enigmatic book. Here I propose a reading that construes the book first and foremost as a tool to help us realize something about our personal morality. First, I argue that the rationalisation of the true origin of values, which according to Nietzsche is inherent in Occidental morality, constitutes an obstacle to Nietzsche's communicating his insights about theprevaling morality. Therefore he needs a strategy that makes the reader find out some of the main points for himself. I argue, further, that in the preface to On the Genealogy of Morals the reader is directed to observing his own reactions when reading the text. The first stage of Nietzsche s special strategy is thereby in place, consisting infixing the reader's attention to himself and then provoking the relevant experiences. At the end of the paper I present an outline of how to read the book in this light.
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