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Hardcover The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids Book
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ISBN: 0500252327

ISBN13: 9780500252321

The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids

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Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings and twelve conclusions of The Teaching of Ptahhatp, vizier, or chief minister, to the Old Kingdom pharaoh Izezi (2390-2350 BCE). Manley's expert commentary elucidates Ptahhatp's profound yet practical philosophy, which covers such topics as ambition,...

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