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en-wikipedia-org-8785		Ancient Egyptian philosophy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1394	336	77	Yet we already have a wide variety of genres to choose from in order to study the manuscripts from a philosophical perspective: The many maxims in "The Teaching of Ptahhotep", the earliest preserved manuscript of this vizier of the fifth dynasty is from the 19th century BCE, in which he also argues that you should "follow your heart"; "The Teaching of Ani", written by a humble middle-class scribe in the 13th century BCE, which gives advice to the ordinary man; "The Satire of the Trades" by Khety, who tries to convince his son Pepy to "love books more than your mother" as there is nothing "on earth" like being a scribe; the masterpiece "The Dispute Between a Man and His Ba" of the 19th century BCE – in which a man laments "the misery of life," while his ba (personality/soul) replies that life is good, that he should rather "ponder life" as it is a burial that is miserable – recently discussed by Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers in their "Africana Philosophy" podcast series.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8785.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8785.txt