Whose Meaning? The Wax and Gold Tradition as a Philosophical Foundation for an Ethiopian Hermeneutic

Sophia 50 (1):175-187 (2011)
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This essay is an attempt to assess critically the wax and gold tradition as a philosophical foundation of Ethiopian hermeneutics. In the first part, I shall analyze the wax and gold tradition as a poetic and literary tradition. After exploring how this tradition has shaped social and political interaction in the second part, in the third part I will show the implications of the wax and gold tradition for hermeneutics. I shall then make a critical assessment of the wax and gold tradition as an interpretive philosophy before closing the essay with concluding remarks

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Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy.Teodros Kiros - 2004 - In Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley. pp. 183--190.

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