how much did he steal from Egyptian and Near East thought?

>le greeks stole from egyptian

this afrocentric meme has been propagated around /his/ by some posters

While Greece borrowed things from its neighbors

much of Greek philosophy and science was uniquely Greek, especially Aristotle who is really the first systematic thinker in history.

No Egyptian or Babylonian that we know of had a complete system of thought like Aristotle had ( at that time)

>>2307392
Nothing. >Islamic >Golden >Age consisted in copying, preserving and comenting on Greek thought though.

>>2307403

>Nothing.

What's with you all-or-nothing faggots? Why does it always need to be "The Greeks just stole everything from Egypt!" versus "The Greeks were 100% unique" with you fuckwits? Why is it so inconceivable that it actually falls a little in between?

>>2307415
Show me one Egyptian work of philosophy.

>>2307415
lol Egyptians are overrated

>>2307423
The Maxims of Ptahhotep

>>2307602
>The Maxims of Ptahhotep are
no where near as systematic as Aristotle's thought

>>2307392
tree fiddy

>>2307392

enough for us to know Atlantis existed

its not as simple as a single civilization owning a thought. Nothing exists in a bubble