Zera Yacob - An Ethiopian that 'pre-Enlightened' the 'Enlightenment'

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As the title says.
I'm not really into philosophy but I have to give credit to this dude. An Ethiopian that 'pre-Enlightened' the 'Enlightenment'.

Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays

Zera Yacob (philosopher) - Wikipedia

Zera Yacob was a seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher from northern Ethiopia, Tigray regions. His 1667 treatise, developed around 1630 and known in the original Ge'ez language as the Hatäta (Inquiry), has been compared to René Descartes' Discours de la méthode (1637). Many of his ideas predate similar ideas described by European philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, the latter of whom form the basis of the Western canon, while Yacob remains comparatively obscure to this day.

His philosophy is theistic in nature. While he did believe in a deity, whom he referred to as God, he rejected any set of religious beliefs. Rather than deriving beliefs from any organized religion, Yacob sought the truth in observing the natural world.

 

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Going to do some reading up here.

https://zelalemkibret.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/zara-yaqob-tretise-english.pdf

Doesn't seem to be enough written out there about this.

 

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Claude Sumner became the preeminent scholar in the area - and of course he was white -

 

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Bookmarked. Good look breh. I like philosophy