UID:
almahu_9949386058702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 116 pages)
ISBN:
9780429326110
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0429326114
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1000048292
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9781000048315
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1000048314
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9781000048308
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1000048306
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9781000048292
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on communication studies
Content:
"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"--
Note:
"Routledge Focus"--Taken from front cover.
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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
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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
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Conclusion: Unaltered by the Winds of Change -- 5 Communicative Dimensions of Maat: Speech and Silence -- Speech as a Radically Creative Action -- Maat as a Scientific Speech -- Speaking to Posterity: On the Preeminence of Listening and Silence as Communicative Virtues -- 6 Medu Netcher: A Picture Says a Thousand Words? -- Order -- Harmony -- Balance -- Transcendental Truths -- 7 A Lust for Life: Allegory and Poetry -- Maat in the Ancestors' Voice -- Love -- Family -- Sorrow -- Friends -- Nature -- Afterword: Speaking to Posterity -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Vélez Ortiz, Melba. Maatian ethics in a communication context. New York : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367344825
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429326110
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429326110
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