IngentaConnect From Africa and Back

Author: Sumner C.

Source: New Political Science, Volume 23, Number 3, 18 September 2001 , pp. 429-439(11)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This paper intends to continue the work of the late Cheik Anta Diop and to bring it into modern times, limiting myself to the case of Ethiopia and of its philosophical literature expressed in g part

z language. Cheik Anta Diop claimed that the source of Greek philosophy is the cosmogony of ancient pharaonic Egypt. This paper would like to show that the philosophy which had such a remarkable development in the Greek-speaking world (Ionia, Magna Graecia, continental Greece) came back to its place of origin, to Africa, to Egypt during the late Hellenistic period. It travelled from Egypt to Abyssinia first with works written in Egypt, by Ethiopian scholars living in the Skete monastery, and translated from Greek to g part

z then with works like The Book of the Philosophers and The Life and Maxims of Sknds, g part

z works translated and adapted from the Greek via Arabic. This cultural impact comes to an end as far as g part

z philosophical literature in concerned with the Treatise of Wäldä 0ywåt in the early 18th century.