One of the things we have provided to readers of these quotes is the sources of where they came from. This particular quote you are questioning has a source. There is a critique of Assmann’s writings on Maat in Mario Beatty’s “Maat: The Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept.” We have foundational African scholars who we use as sources who guide us in our understanding of Kemet. They are Cheikh Anta Diop, Theophile Obenga, Ayi Kwei Armah and Jacob H. Carruthers. They all can read the MDW NTR (Hieroglyphs). Some speak several African languages and one reads ancient Greek writing. They all prescribed to the following; “The present inquiry focuses on the philosophy of the Egyptian pharaonic period, using authentic, original texts, translated with concise commentaries. It goes without saying, then, that serious attention is paid to both the language and content of the pharaonic texts. The documents will thus speak for themselves, and for us, as Tradition, merged from now on, as embraced heritage, with our practice and study of contemporary philosophy. This much is necessary.” “At this point we must underscore the abyss that separates us from those Africans who believe that it can be enough to flirt with Egyptian culture. For us, the return to Egypt in all domains is the necessary condition for reconciling African civilizations with history, in order to be able to construct a body of modern human sciences, in order to renovate African culture. Far from being a reveling in the past, a look toward the Egypt of antiquity is the best way to conceive and build our cultural future. In reconceived and renewed African culture, Egypt will play the same role that Greco-Latin antiquity plays in Western culture.” The two above quotes are from Theophile Obenga’s “African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330 BC” page 13, and Cheikh Anta Diop’s “Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology” page 3, respectively.
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