Talk:Ancient Egyptian philosophy

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Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This page ought to be subject to serious review, since I had to remove a number of Afrocentrist sources that provide historically dubious claims that rely on spurious historiography, as well as a number of unsourced claims that were either demonstrably false or added nothing of substance to the article.

Furthermore, if any reputable work were to be added, it would amount to an explanation that 'Ancient Egyptian philosophy' bore little relation to Ancient Greek philosophy, there is no evidence that Ancient Greek philosophy was indebted to Ancient Egyptian philosophy, beliefs to the contrary are due to reliance on the work of historical revisionists that engage in wild conjecture without historical basis or on disreputable Ancient Greek sources like Diogenes Laertius.

Lastly, the very understanding of extant 'Ancient Egyptian philosophy' would better be understood as guides to social mores (the didactic texts known as 'instructions'), state ideology ('Maat'), theology, and early cosmology and cosmogony. In the surviving texts there is no critical discussion between differing schools, no exegesis, or argumentation. Theology and etiquette does not conform to what either the Western or Eastern traditions consider philosophy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.179.246.98 (talk) 14:42, 29 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your effort. It is much appreciated. It's on my watchlist now. Kleuske (talk) 13:44, 27 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Very little seems to be known, and few acknowledge that

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Going through google, google scholar, and a few online encyclopedia's it appears that almost nothing exists on the philosophy of Phaorinoc Egypt. Some non-academic sources made the very reasonable claim that Egyptians simply didn't differentiate between philosophy as a formal discipline and things like mysticism, religion, and law. This seems to be the case, as the Greeks and Chinese very clearly established philosophical schools, cults, and traditions with clear stories, paradigms, metaphors, and texts that were explicitly meant to be philosophical.

In terms of sourcing the claim "almost nothing is known about ancient Egyptian philosophy" very few openly admit that. Instead, people just don't talk about it. I was able to find a decent sized body of work on how ancient Greek philosophy was "stolen" from the Egyptians, but little on the actual Egyptian philosophy itself. The criticisms others have made on this talk page about misinformation are well warranted. EconomicHisorianinTraining (talk) 04:03, 8 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

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