# Claude Sumner

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**Claude Sumner**, [SJ](/source/Society_of_Jesus) (1919–2012) was a Canadian professor of philosophy who worked at [Addis Ababa University](/source/Addis_Ababa_University) from 1953.[1] He was best known for his work on [Zera Yacob](/source/Zera_Yacob_(philosopher)).

Sumner died on June 24, 2012, in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), Canada, at the age of 92.[2][3]

## Bibliography

- *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.
- *Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. IV: The Life and Maxims of Skandes*, Commercial Printing Press, 1974.
- *Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. V: The Fisalgwos*, Commercial Printing Press, 1976.
- *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.

## References

1. Teodros Kiros, "Doing African Philosophy: Claude Sumner's Work on Ethiopian Philosophy", *New Political Science* 16.1 (1995), p. 95

1. [*SJ Africa News*, vol. 5, no. 3 (July 20, 2012)](https://web.archive.org/web/20200221073319/http://jesam.info/wp-content/uploads/jn-en-26.pdf), p. 9.

1. ["Décès du P. Claude Sumner, s.j. | Jésuites"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130724035630/http://www.jesuites.org/content/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-du-p-claude-sumner-sj) (in French). Jesuites.org. Archived from [the original](http://www.jesuites.org/content/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-du-p-claude-sumner-sj) on 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2012-09-23.

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