Download or read book Zara Yacob written by Teodros Kiros and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Classical Ethiopian philosophy and the modernity of Zara Yacob -- Ethiopia in the seventeenth century -- Zara Yacob: Philosopher of the heart -- Walda Heywat's transformation of Zara Yacob's philosophy -- Zara Yacob and the problematic of African philosophy -- Zara Yacob's place in the history of philosophy -- Conclusion: the rationality of the heart -- Appendix: The debates about the authenticity of Zara [Yacob's] treatise -- End notes.