The electrifying opening question in the second essay of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals can be read as an aphorism as it is defined in the preface, namely, as something that requires creative deciphering. For it contains hooks and snares in which a merely superficial reading quickly becomes entangled. Furthermore, one would like to perceive its connection with the first treatise, with its oppositions of Good–Bad and Good–Evil, or between the master morality and slave morality.