Maatian ethics in a communication context

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"Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context explores the ethical principle of Maat: the guiding principle of harmony and order that permeated ancient African political and civil life"--

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Full title :Maatian ethics in a communication context / Melba Vélez Ortiz.

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"Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context explores the ethical principle of Maat: the guiding principle of harmony and order that permeated ancient African political and civil life"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

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"Routledge Focus"--Taken from front cover.

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Description:1 online resource (xvii, 116 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429326110, 0429326114, 1000048292, 9781000048315, 1000048314, 9781000048308, 1000048306, 9781000048292
DOI:10.4324/9780429326110
oclc:on1131868585
LC Classification:BJ101
Dewey Decimal:170.932

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- As Above, So Below, As Below, So Above -- An Undeniable Moral, Philosophical, and Intellectual Legacy -- Notes on the Particularities of This Inquiry -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Evolution of Maat as the Collective Guiding Principle in Pre-Colonial African Civilizations -- The Earthshattering End of the Last Ice Age -- A Genealogy of Morals -- Ecological Dimensions -- Conclusion: Maat as a Land Ethic -- 2 Ancient African Spirituality: Heaven on Earth

The Communicative Dimensions of African Spirituality -- From Cosmology to Communication Ethics -- The Kemetic Work of the Soul -- Conclusion: Mythology as Allegory -- 3 Scientific Communication and the Divine -- Monologue as Internal Dialogue -- Maat as the Model of Maieutic Communication -- Direct Communication as Divine -- The School of Alexandria -- Conclusion: Morality as Technology -- 4 The Universal Moral Ideal of Maat -- Re-Enlightening the Enlightenment Transcendental Individual -- Communication as Key to Survival -- On Reasoned Pleasures -- Maatian Symmetry and Balance as Visual Ethics

Conclusion: Unaltered by the Winds of C…