Ismael Hegazy Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Dedication : To the soul of Abdel Rahman Badawi (1917 - 2002) , the late Egyptian philosopher who was a major reason for the interest and reading of many people in the Arab world for Western and Eastern philosophies. Preface : To whom it may concern , I present this simplified English translation of the essay "The Last Messiah" to all the lovers of Philosophy and Anthropology around the world , especially to the speakers of English as a second language. When I was completing this translation , I took into account that I must simplify - as possible - all the words and expressions that some may find ambiguous or might be misunderstood , and I did that - as possible - without making any distortion of the meaning or the context. I do not forget to express my thanks and respect to Professor Gisle R. Tangenes , for his translation of the original essay from the Dano-Norwegian language , without which there would not have been an Arabic translation of the essay (which was Gratefully done by Karim Saad and Ahmed Qayati) , and I would not have been able to make this simplified translation without his original translation. And this essay (published in 1933) written by the Norwegian philosopher Peter W. Zapffe (1899-1990) , is no less wonderful and important than the novel "Hayy ibn Yaqdhan" which was written by the Arab philosopher Ibn Tufayl (1110-1185). And because philosophy and science in general were transferred interchangeably from the ancient Greeks to the Arabs , then from the Arabs to the Europeans in the Middle Ages , and finally from the Europeans in the Renaissance era and the modern era to all peoples of the world ; and since languages are the means of that philosophical and scientific exchange , therefore I urge the speakers of English as a second language - if they have the Time and Ability - to translate this simplified English translation into their own native languages. Ismael Hegazy– (January 2023) ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ You can download the translation of the essay from the attachment The Last Messiah - Simplified Translation.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 ! Moderator Note We’re a discussion site, not your blog. Was there something you wish to discuss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ismael Hegazy Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share Posted January 28, 2023 1 hour ago, swansont said: ! Moderator Note We’re a discussion site, not your blog. Was there something you wish to discuss? I just wanted to post the translation and then we may discuss some of the ideas in the essay like tragedy and meaning of life etc.. , My best regards .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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