This thesis examines Nietzsche’s employment of skeptical strategies towards a ‘revaluation of values’, the goal of On theGenealogy of Morals (1887). Nietzsche developed his position as anargument against Paul Rée’s The Origin of the Moral Sensations (877), and reinterprets from an aesthetic perspective the fields of knowledge he uses: history, psychology, and physiology. Thefirst chapter examines the connections between Nietzsche’s aesthetic history and his epistemological doctrine of perspectivism. The second chapter considers Nietzsche’s rejectionof utilitarian psychology and the skeptical concepts which found the new aesthetic approach he advocates. The third chapterdiscusses Nietzsche’s aesthetic revaluation of physiology and his explanation of evolutionary development through an endogenouscreative force he terms ‘the will to power’.

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