Teachings of Wisdom

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro-Ferreira, Ana Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2017.2940

Great philosophers in ancient Egypt from Imhotep to Akhenaten devoted their life to a constant process of reflection and interrogation of the problems posed to human beings and their experiences in their relationships with the world, nature, the cosmos, spiritual life, and human beings themselves. In the West, under the classical Greek orientation, this exercise became a discipline, more important as a thing in itself (Kant’s “das Ding an sich”) rather than sabayet or wisdom, the expression of collective representations of society, systems of thought, and cosmological perspectives. This paper seeks to unveil the anteriority and impact of Kemetic wisdom literature in the development of humanity by highlighting its epistemological character, philosophical content, and analytical discourse in the context of the Africological disciplinary framework.