Ptahhotep · Philosophy
The single standard beneath every maxim - <em>ma’at</em>, the Egyptian idea of truth, justice, and right order woven into the cosmos itself. ‘Great is Truth,’ Ptahhotep says, ‘never overthrown since the reign of Osiris’: wrongdoing may seize riches for a season, but <em>ma’at</em> endures.
You learned that ma’at is the standard beneath every maxim - truth, justice, and right cosmic and social order - and that Ptahhotep held it to be great and enduring (‘never overthrown since the reign of Osiris’), so that wrongdoing may seize wealth for a time but cannot finally prevail. Explain what…
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