THE EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHERS - Internet Archive

THE EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHERS: Ancient African Voices for These Times

FROM IMHOTEP TO AKHENATEN

MOLEFI KETE ASANTE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

Chronology of Ancient World Philosophers

Chronology of Ancient Egyptian Philosophers

PREFACE

10

1. THE AFRICAN MIND

II. THE FOUR CELESTIAL ELEMENTS

8

THE BEGINNING OF THINGS

III. IMHOTEP : THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENCE AND REASON

IV. PTAHHOTEP AND THE MORAL ORDER

61

V.KAGEMNI:

RELATIONSHIP AND BEING

72

VI. THE SEBOYET OF DUAUF

ON LOVING BOOKS AND EDUCATION

78

VII. AMENHOTEP, THE SON OF HAPU REWARDS OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE

VIII. AMENENMOPE: USING TIME WISELY

83 88

IX. AMENEMHAT:

CHOOSING FRIENDS WISELY

93

X. TEACHINGS OF MERIKARE

96

XI. SEHOTEPIBRE:

A LESSON IN LOYALTY

100

XII. KHUNANUP:

THE CLASH OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS

104

XIII. AKHENATEN: THE DIVINE IS EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING 116

XIV. DOING AND WRITING THE TRUTH:

THE LIVING WORD OF MAAT

126

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Chronology of Ancient World Philosophers

Imhotep 2700 BC Earliest personality recorded in history who dealt with questions of space, time, volume, the nature of illness, the care of the sick, and human mortality and immortality.

Ptahhotep 2414 BC Ancient African philosopher who produced the first ethical teaching on the life of the aged. Ptahhotep was a learned priest of immense influence and power and his instructions or philosophy reverberated through the ages.

Kagemni 2300 BC Considered by some to be the first pacifist, Kagemni sought to insure that human beings performed right deeds because they were right rather than because they sought personal advantage. He saw good service as the object of pleasing God and believed that one must have compassion on all living creatures.

Merikare 1990 BC?

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