ABSTRACT
As I have argued above, defmitions of Maat in Kemetic texts are most often general. Like philosophical concepts of the Good, the Right, the Beneficial, it allows for a broad range of meanings. In the texts it is often defmed or rather described by a delineation of things to be done and to be avoided. Thus, in the Old Kingdom documents cited above in chapter II, we see that Maat is speaking truth, doing justice, not doing what is harmful to people, serving the state, district and city well, not stealing, not using force, loving good, hating crookedness and evil, making a tomb by rightful means, not speaking evil or falsehood, speaking good and repeating good, caring for the vulnerable and needy, wanting good for the people and other similar moral deeds and aspirations.
