Claude Sumner Explained
Claude Sumner, SJ (1919–2012) was a Canadian professor of philosophy who worked at Addis Ababa University from 1953.[1] He was best known for his work on Zera Yacob. Sumner died on June 24, 2012, in Montreal, Canada, at the age of 92.[2] [3]
Bibliography
- The Philosophy of Man, Vol. I: From the Upanisads to the British Empiricists, University College Press, 1973.
- The Philosophy of Man, Vol. II: From Kant to the Situation in 1963, Central Printing Press, 1974.
- Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. I: The Book of the Wise Philosophers, Commercial Printing Press, 1974.
- Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. II: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: Text and Authorship, Commercial Printing Press, 1976.
- Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. III: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: An Analysis, Commercial Printing Press, 1978.
- Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. IV: The Life and Maxims of Skandes, Commercial Printing Press, 1974.
- Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. V: The Fisalgwos, Commercial Printing Press, 1976.
- Classical Ethiopian Philosophy, Commercial Printing Press, 1985.
- The Source of African Philosophy: The Ethiopian Philosophy of Man, Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1986.
- Oromo Wisdom Literature: Proverbs, Collection and Analysis, 1995.
- "Zera Yacob", in Arrington, ed, A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell, 1999.
- Proverbs, Songs, Folktales: An Anthology of Oromo Literature, Gudina Tumsa Foundation, Addis Ababa, 1996.
- Living Springs of Wisdom and Philosophy, Addis Ababa University, 1999.
- "The Proverb and Oral Society", New Political Science, 21(1):11–31, 1999.
- "The Significance of Zera Yacob's Philosophy", Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 22(3):172–88, 1999.
- "The Significance of Ethiopian Philosophy for the Problematics of an African Philosophy", in Perspectives in African philosophy, Addis Ababa University, 2002.
- "The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century", in Wiredu and Abraham, eds., A Companion to African Philosophy, 2004.
Notes and References
- Teodros Kiros, "Doing African Philosophy: Claude Sumner's Work on Ethiopian Philosophy", New Political Science 16.1 (1995), p. 95
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200221073319/http://jesam.info/wp-content/uploads/jn-en-26.pdf SJ Africa News, vol. 5, no. 3 (July 20, 2012)
- Web site: Décès du P. Claude Sumner, s.j. | Jésuites . French . Jesuites.org . 2012-09-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130724035630/http://www.jesuites.org/content/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-du-p-claude-sumner-sj . 2013-07-24 .
