The Light and Twilight of Zera Yaekob’s Philosophy for the Eminence of European Enlightenment

Abstract

Zera Yaekob’s rationalistic philosophy seems to be, like the ocean, has diverse echelons. The usual daily activities have been documented by philosophical philosophers, starting from his mouthpiece Wolde Hewot till now a Canadian philosopher Claud Sumner. Now a day several Neo-Zera Yaekobian’s will be emerging on the philosophical scene of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, gender and the like. The streams—the sincere pillar of the ocean that mixes water across the world and it embody the most philosophical echelons of enlightenment. This is why Zera Yaekob’s philosophy is considered as a premium spring/notebook of western enlightenment philosophy. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to scrutinize the role of Zera Yaekob’s philosophy of the current existing European enlightenment period/age of reason which was assumed a philosophy of Immanuel Kant. However, the Enlightenment culminated their climax with Zera Yacob of Abyssinia in Africa than Immanuel Kant in Europe.  Moreover, the paper also takes into account how his philosophical scene governs contemporary African philosophy.

Keywords: Zera Yaekob, Ethiopian philosophy, Western Philosophy, Enlightenment, Philosophy.

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/64-01

Publication date: January 31^st 2020