La filosofía en el antiguo Egipto
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.tempus.26576Keywords:
ancient egyptians, philosophy, greek, egyptologyAbstract
For a long time scholars have been thinking that there was no such a discipline as philosophy in Ancient Egypt. Philosophical thinking, according to them, started with the Greeks. The Egyptians, Babylonians and other civilizations produced abundant mythology to explain the universe and man's place on it. The analysis of its true nature, human thought, reason, ethics and many other aspects of the world and our interactions with it were apparently beyond the scope and the capabilities of those who could have attempted to deal with these issues before the Greeks. More recently, other opinions have emerged in the academic world, such as that the ancient Egyptians had indeed been busy with such matters and in fact, the Greeks had later on appropriated their findings and more moderate ones which admit the existence of a wide variety of philosophical thinking in the Nile Valley in pharaonic times. In the contemporary academic world there is a wide range of opinions, some denying the ancient Egyptians such an accomplishment, others warmly supporting it and yet others completely avoiding the issue, all this with the background noise of people from outside professional egyptology who for reasons that have little to do with scientific enquiry argue one or other side of the debate confusing the public as to the true nature of the evidence that leads scholars to adopt one or other attitude. In this paper I try to establish to what an extent we can talk of such a development in ancient Egypt, evaluating the implications of the relevant ancient texts that have come down to us.
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