Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt
Anna Mancini
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice." Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists and historians of religions believe they have not yet fully understood its meaning. They regret this fact because understanding Maat would be a gateway to a deeper understanding of the ancient Egyptian world. As for lawyers, they have limited themselves to the Greco-Roman sources on the philosophy of Justice and the discoveries of Egyptologists in this philosophical field remain thoroughly ignored. Thanks to her experience in ancient history of law and her ability to understand ancient symbols, the author provides Egyptology with the missing pieces that were needed to form a coherent image of Maat. Once revealed, Maat sheds a new and unexpected light on the whole of Egyptian civilization. As a bridge between traditionally separate fields of academic research, this book is a useful and groundbreaking contribution to Egyptology, the history of religions and the modern philosophy of law.
Duration - 1h 47m.
Author - Anna Mancini.
Narrator - Digital Voice Archie G.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2008 Anna Mancini ©.
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice." Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists and historians of religions believe they have not yet fully understood its meaning. They regret this fact because understanding Maat would be a gateway to a deeper understanding of the ancient Egyptian world. As for lawyers, they have limited themselves to the Greco-Roman sources on the philosophy of Justice and the discoveries of Egyptologists in this philosophical field remain thoroughly ignored. Thanks to her experience in ancient history of law and her ability to understand ancient symbols, the author provides Egyptology with the missing pieces that were needed to form a coherent image of Maat. Once revealed, Maat sheds a new and unexpected light on the whole of Egyptian civilization. As a bridge between traditionally separate fields of academic research, this book is a useful and groundbreaking contribution to Egyptology, the history of religions and the modern philosophy of law. Duration - 1h 47m. Author - Anna Mancini. Narrator - Digital Voice Archie G. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2008 Anna Mancini ©.
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English
Title Page
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INTRODUCTION: ANCIENT EGYPT, A CIVILIZATION FOCUSED ON JUSTICE
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CHAPTER 1: MAAT THROUGH EGYPTOLOGY AND HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
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1. Maat: the Egyptian Goddess of Justice
Duration:00:02:32
2. From the ethical Maat to the cosmic Maat
Duration:00:22:25
CHAPTER 2: SYMBOLS AS A KEY TO ACCESSING ANCIENT WORLDS
Duration:00:00:46
1. Ancient Egypt: a world of symbolic communication
Duration:00:06:12
2. Science and symbolic communication in Egypt
Duration:00:07:31
CHAPTER 3: A SCENE OF JUSTICE IN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
Duration:00:00:58
1. What is the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead?
Duration:00:08:25
2. The SCENE from the angle of scholars
Duration:00:05:13
3. An actual observation of the SCENE
Duration:00:15:30
CHAPTER 4: JUSTICE AS A KEY TO UNVEILING ANCIENT EGYPT
Duration:00:05:13
1. What is Maat, and what is its opposite?
Duration:00:02:31
2. The law of Maat and its positive results
Duration:00:01:35
3. The flow of Maat among people
Duration:00:02:51
4. The obstacles to the free flow of Maat
Duration:00:03:57
5. Maat: the link between all the spheres of life
Duration:00:04:42
6. Maat is not the actual Egyptian justice
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7. What is the ancient Egyptian justice?
Duration:00:01:23
CONCLUSION
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Other books by Anna Mancini, Ph. D
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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