Packet 2: Tossup 12

A book of sayings from this modern country that praises asceticism includes the aphorism “if it were possible to build a house by shouting, a donkey would build two houses a day.” A text written in this country that calls for the equality of pleasure during sex may be a forgery by Italian missionary Giusto (10[1])d’Urbino. An expert on the thought of this country, Claude Sumner, translated a collection of wisdom literature from it called The Book of the Wise Philosophers. A thinker from this country fled to a cave (10[1])where he formulated (10[3]-5[1])a (10[1])cosmological (10[2])argument (10[1])whose causal chain begins with his parents. Descartes’s (10[1])Discourse on Method has been compared to texts from this country called the Hatata, (10[1])which were written by Walda Heywat (10[2])and (10[1])Zera Yacob. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])African country where philosophers drew from the Kebra Nagast (10[2])and wrote (10[1])in Ge’ez ■END■ (10[1])

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