Claude Sumner SJ (* 10. Juli 1919 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; † 24. Juni 2012 in Montreal) war ein kanadischer Äthiopienforscher und Hochschullehrer für Philosophie, der Beiträge zur Erforschung der afrikanischen, insbesondere der äthiopischen Philosophie leistete.

Leben

Der kanadische Jesuit lebte 45 Jahre lang in Äthiopien und widmete sein Lebenswerk dem Sammeln, Dokumentieren und Auswerten äthiopischer philosophischer Texte und mündlicher Literatur. Ab 1953 war er an der Universität Addis Abeba tätig. Sumner ist Verfasser verschiedener Werke zur äthiopischen Philosophie. Er ist vor allem für seine Arbeit über Zär’a Yaqob und Walda Hewyat bekannt.

1970 wurde er Mitglied des Centre international de logique et de sciences comparées in Bologna, Italien.

Publikationen

  • 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. Online
  • Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. IV: The Life and Maxims of Skandes, Commercial Printing Press, 1974. Online
  • Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. V: The Fisalgwos, Commercial Printing Press, 1976. Online
  • 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.
  • (Übers.) Milton, John: Ode sur la nativité. The University College Press, Addis Abeba, 1956

Literatur

  • Gamila Morcos, Gilles Cadrin, Paul Dubé, Dictionnaire des artistes et des auteurs francophones de l'Ouest Canadien., Les Presses de l'Université Laval et la Faculté Saint-Jean, 1998 (Online-Teilansicht)
  • Presbey, Gail & McLean, George (2013): In Memory: The Significance of Claude Sumner. SJ’s Contribution to African Philosophy. In African Philosophy in Ethiopia: Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, II. Washington, DC, USA: (Abstract)
  • Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities (EJOSSAH): V. 15, No. 1 – Special Issue This work is licensed to the publisher under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. ISSN (online): 2520-582X ISSN (print): 1810-4487 Claude Sumner and the Quest for an Ethiopian Philosophy Fasil Merawi
  • Claude Sumner's Classical Ethiopian Philosophy Teodros Kiros. Northeast African Studies New Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1996), S. 39–52 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41931137

Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ SJ Africa News, vol. 5, no. 3 (July 20, 2012), S. 9.
  2. ↑ jesuites.org: Décès du P. Claude Sumner, s.j.
  3. ↑ Presbey, Gail & McLean, George (2013): In Memory: The Significance of Claude Sumner. SJ’s Contribution to African Philosophy. In African Philosophy in Ethiopia: Ethiopian Philosophical Studies, II. Washington, DC, USA: (Abstract)
  4. ↑ Teodros Kiros, "Doing African Philosophy: Claude Sumner's Work on Ethiopian Philosophy", New Political Science 16.1 (1995), S. 95
  5. ↑ englisch Ethiopian philosophy
  6. ↑ Gamila Morcos, Gilles Cadrin, Paul Dubé, Dictionnaire des artistes et des auteurs francophones de l'Ouest Canadien., Les Presses de l'Université Laval et la Faculté Saint-Jean, 1998 (Online-Teilansicht) S. 299
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