MAAT - The Moral Ideal In Ancient Egypt - Maulana Karenga (HB, Routledge, 2004)

MAAT - The Moral Ideal In Ancient Egypt - Maulana Karenga (Routledge, 2004)

Hardback. 458 pages. 

A unique and pioneering book which helps to unravel the spiritual philosophy of Ancient Kemet and the ancient Egyptian concept of order, justice, and cosmic harmony across the ages. A concept which structured all aspects of Egyptian society and thought, from the magical and spiritual to social and personal. 

This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of inspiring and maintaining ethical philosophic reflection. The effort here is one of both interpretation and transmission of an ethical tradition, a project in which tradition is seen not simply as a precondition and process in which one comes, but also as an ongoing product of one's efforts to understand it. Locating himself within the tradition, the author seeks to test the conceptual elasticity of its major categories and contentions and to establish its capacity for critical moral discourse.

Condition : Unread copy. The lightest of shelf-wear, otherwise as new.