Book review of "The Ethics of Zär'a Ya'eqob A reply to the historical and religious violence in the seventeenth century Ethiopia", Roma, 2012, Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana [Tesi Gregoriana. Serie Filosofia 30], 455 p." by Dawit Worku Kidane,

Anaïs Wion (1)

1 CFEE - Centre Français des Études Ethiopiennes

This book is the publication of a PhD thesis defended in 2012 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. It purports to address the question of ethics in the Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob (HZY), a short philosophical text in Ge'ez attributed to an educated Ethiopian cleric of the 17th c. The book is divided into three parts of two chapters each. The first part gives the historical background and details the content of the Ḥatatā. The second deals with the essential notions of “human being” and “God” as found in the Ḥatatā. The third part deals with ethics and morality. Only the Ge'ez text of the HZY (not the HWH) is edited on the basis of E. Littmann's edition of 1904, which did not take into account the differences between the two known manuscripts and which considered the manuscript BnF Eth. 215 as the best manuscript.

Mots clés: Ethiopia; forgery; philosophy; Hatata Zara Yaeqob

Domaines: Histoire; Philosophie

Anaïs Wion. Book review of "The Ethics of Zär'a Ya'eqob A reply to the historical and religious violence in the seventeenth century Ethiopia", Roma, 2012, Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana [Tesi Gregoriana. Serie Filosofia 30], 455 p." by Dawit Worku Kidane,. 2014. ⟨hal-01284505⟩