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Egyptian Antecedents to Greek Philosophy


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             James also criticizes their acceptance of philosophy, which he says is a replica of Ma'at, because they were the first to reject philosophy and bases his argument for the "Stolen Legacy " on this. The argument against Greeks being the origin of philosophy can also be grounded in the fact that there is no certain birth date or certain origin of their doctrines, it his historically acknowledged that ancient Egyptian was the center of wisdom, knowledge, religious, philosophical growth, however the world has accepted the Greek. He further criticizes the so called Greek philosophers for their lack of teachers, there is no documentation to show how they received such knowledge. .
             According to James, there was great need for secrecy, and that the original philosophers would not have been permitted to publicize their teachings, he adds that it is obvious that history, because of a lack of authentic authorship would place the origin of philosophy into the hands of the Greek.
             Aristotle's collection of work causes suspicion to the modern world, it also begs to question where is knowledge originated. James suggests that he must have made his plans to publish known to his students because they published his work after his death. He also suggests that Aristotle and his students did their research at Alexander's library, after Alexander's conquest of the Egyptian libraries, hence another point for the theft of Egyptian thought. .
             Martin Bernal (Bernal, 1989) in his Black Athena likens Plato's republic to the Egyptian State form, he examines the similarities of Plato's writings and states "The only reason for doubting that the Republic was based on Egypt is the fact that he does not say so in the text" emphasizing the similarities. Bernal also examines the other "borrowed " traditions "Gnostics, Christians, Platonists, Aristotelians, and Pythagoreans, all did only decorate with more or less pretentious names and concepts, whose prototypes are found in Egyptian works word for word ".


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