This is the misrepresentation that has become the basis of race prejudice, which has affected all people of color'. Consequently this theft of the African legacy by the Greeks led to the erroneous world opinion that the African Continent has made no contribution to civilization, and that its people are naturally backward. The main point made by Afrocentrists is that Egypt was anterior to Greece, that Greece owes a substantial debt to Egypt and that Egypt should be considered a major contributor to our. Professor James indicated that the aim of the book was as follows: ' T]o show that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not the Greeks but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians and the praise and honour falsely given to the Greeks for centuries belong to the people of North Africa, and therefore the African Continent. The third is that freemasonry is the source of James’ claim, in his book Stolen Legacy, that the Greeks got many of their major ideas from the Egyptians. James opposed this idea and presented a compelling case that challenged the very foundation of Western civilization, as he argued that the Greeks stole and plagiarized from North African teachers in the ancient Egyptian mystery system. Drawing on careful historical research and a radical rethinking of the conventional narrative of. James argues that the 'Greek philosophy' in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots actually originated in ancient Egypt.

In this bold and uncompromising book, George G.

In Stolen Legacy, James contested the hegemony of mainstream Western scholarship in the mid-20th century, a time when the so-called Greek miracle in philosophy and science had been assumed as a demonstrable fact for the previous 150 years. The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy.

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