Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots?

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Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots?

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Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Does_Western_Philosophy_Have_Egyptian_Roots
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Splendid article. Kinda made a similar case myself in Philosophy's Roots and Branches (issue 104, if memory serves.) Yeah, of course Greek philosophy didn't come out of nowhere, and it is a fact that Greek aristocrats did a 'grand tour' of Egypt and Mesopotamia to broaden their education, much as 19th century aristos went to Athens and Rome.
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Egypt is part of the West. It's not India, it's not the Far East. It was eventually part of the Roman Empire, and became a colony of Great Britain. It is part of the west.

So if you reconfigure the title to "Does Western Philosophy Have Western Roots?" then you realize what blaring idiots had this ill-conceived insight transdisfigurated into an article.

Of course western philosophy has western roots. What else could it have? Morons. You guys are getting stupider and stupider in your "sensationalist" and "revolutionary" insights.
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Egyptians had a great knowledge, and they developed many sources that clearly western cultures copied to enhance their society. It is amazing how egyptians had used mathematics to calculate areas of lands with a simple rope. They introduced many designs which are very logical in constructions and make easy to the diary lives as build locks in the doors. However the most curious things about egypticans how influenced in the culture of Greeks as they received abstract thinking and geometrical way to sight things around with a logic that later were used by Plato, Solon and Pythagoras.
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Another feature of Ancient Egyptian thought which approximated early Greek thought is the idea that the universe is rational, and ordered according to intellectual principles.
Is what worries me. We are forced to presume that this is so otherwise we can't make any plans. God is indeed a matter for faith not reason.
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Philosophy Now wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:58 pm Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Do ... tian_Roots
Yes, finally someone is making progress worth noting. Great article.

I heard rumors of research finding that even oriential philosophy/culture has it's roots in Egypt.

It all goes back to the Egyptians.

Pythagoras was initiated within the Egyptian Mystery schools, hence Plato/Aristotle (all of those we build our philosophical foundations on) are rooted in a philosophical religion; thus necessitating Judaism/Catholicism/Islam (and the corresponding religions and subdivisions that stem from them) as extensions of a prior universal faith.
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story of osiris/moses have parallels.

refer to the Book of the Dead with the NT sayings as well.

there is historical influence.
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It would be interesting to know what this theory would do to modern opinions of the Hermetica. If Egypt was the root of Platonic thought then the Corpus Hermeticum represents a homecoming, rather than a hybrid bastardization fabricated by disenfranchised Egyptian priests.
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