Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt - Bok av Anna Mancini - Häftad
Categories: Egyptology, philosophy of law, history of religionsUnlike 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..