ABSTRACT
Worthiness before the people or other persons-im30 or rml-is by far the greatest concern of the Declarations of Innocence. In fact, the fIrst concern listed in the DOl is that one does no wrong to people (A 1). This reflects the Maatian assumption that in the fmal analysis, although God is the author of Maat, it is in human relations and actions that Maat is most defmitively expressed. In a word, doing Maat among humans is the fundamental way of doing Maat for God. This does not diminish the importance of specific duties to nature or specific duties to God. But it does give greater stress to moral practice in the human community which is never in isolation or without direct or indirect implications for relations with God and nature.
