You're listening to The Partial Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our questions for episode 379 might include, how does tradition fit in with ethics, or how should we react to injustice?

And we read several selections from ancient Egypt, ranging from probably 2,200 BC to 1400 BC,

including two dialogues, a dispute between a man and his ba and the eloquent peasant,

plus two works where a king gives instructions on how to be a good king or just a good person, plus a hymn to the sun god.

We were guided in these selections by treading the ground of the history of Afrikanah philosophy podcast and read a few chapters from their latest book, bringing together the essays that read on that show.

Africana philosophy from ancient Egypt to the 19th century, written by our past guest, Peter

Adamson, and today's guest, G.K. Jeffers.

More information about the text and the podcast, please see partially examined life.com.

This is Mark Linsonmeyer, feeling cool-bellied in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, anxious to recede into the West in Austin, Texas.

This is West Allwin, sustained by my car in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And this is G.K. Jeffers, ready to talk about some of the earliest recorded philosophy there is,

Halavax, Nova Scotia.

Well, thanks so much for coming on here.

Yeah, we knew Dylan was going to be out doing some traveling.

We had reached out to Peter again in light of this book had been thrust upon us by Oxford.

Hey, you should cover it.

And he said, actually, Chiquet would be better.

So I'm really glad you were available here.

And then you and I discussed in that entire book,

what is the thing that sort of best fills a gap in our coverage? And we have never done philosophy

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