On July 8-13 2024, the United Nations Sustainable Development Network (UN SDSN) co-hosted the second Confucius-Aristotle Symposium in Qufu and Beijing, China. The global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivered the lecture «Peace of Mind, State of Peace» at the Tenth Nishan Forum on World Civilizations, in the Nishan Lecture Hall at Mount Ni (the birtplace of Confucius), Qufu. Dozens of scholars from around the world joined in on the […]
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New book: On November 20 2023, De Gruyter published the first scholarly translation of the rationality texts by Zara Yaqob (1600-1693) and his student Walda Heywat, The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities (link to De Gruyter). The Open Access Preface is by Dag Herbjørnsrud (SGOKI). 120 years after two inquiries (Hatätas), written in the Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez), […]
New book: On November 6, 2023 De Gruyter publishes the first critical translation of the Hatätas, written by Zera Yaqob and Walda Heywat, into English. The volume is edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher in collaboration with Jeremy R. Brown. Translated by: Ralph Lee, Mehari Zemelak Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher. Preface by: Dag Herbjørnsrud. UPDATE: All info here: www.sgoki.org/no/2023/11/30/book-launch-the-hatata-inquiries/ Info from the publisher on The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia […]
Aeon-essayet «The African Enlightenment» (av Dag Herbjørnsrud) er nå (01.02.2018) oversatt til norsk på Afrika.no. Les «Afrikas ukjente opplysningsfilosofer» her. Teksten omhandler de to etiopiske filosofene Zera Yacob (Jakob, 1599-1692) og Walda Heywat og deres hatetaer (undersøkelser). Zera Yacobs bok fra 1667 tar til orde for å velge fornuften og rasjonaliteten fremfor troen på religiøse doktriner, han argumenterer for likestilling for kvinner og han kritiserer alle religioner. Teksten er blitt sammenligned med Descartes, […]