You're listening to the Parsley Examined Life.

This is episode 379, part two.

We've got guest, Sheke Jeffers, co-author of the Africana section of the history of philosophy without any gaps podcast, podcast who is here we're talking about the

instructional literature now kings instructing their sons viziers instructing the king

instructing their sons something like that and we're talking about the older of the two that we

considered here the instruction of tahotap, Patahotap.

You just told me.

You just instructed me and how to say it.

And now look.

Yes, we were commenting how it sort of starts in a more modest way than you would think.

You should look for knowledge.

It might be hidden among the poorest people, the most, the thing, the people that you

would find most foolish.

Wisdom could be hiding anywhere.

So don't be so snooty about it.

And thinking maybe this pointed toward some sort of not egalitarianism, but at least a reaction

to probably what was a very intense class division.

Well, so the section right after that, he is, does sort of lay this down look.

Okay, if you meet a disputant into action, a powerful man superior to you, how do you deal with that?

Well, maybe just let his own words condemn him.

Whereas if you meet somebody who's on your level, same thing. Well, it does, yeah.

If you meet someone who's not, who's lower than you, kind of the same thing. I mean, there are

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