Droit et Cultures (Apr 2015)
Maât, ordre social et inégalités dans l’Égypte ancienne
Abstract
The principle of maât, born at the end of the fourth millennium in the Nile Valley, not only nourished Egyptian law but also refined the concept of justice in its duality and allowed the handling of structural inequalities in pharaonic antiquity. Maât was taught by priests, who were regarded as philosophers by the Greeks, through whom they necessarily influenced the polished concepts of justice and law in Aristotle and then Cicero; which is what the article aims to demonstrate.
