Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion - Couverture souple

Maffie, James

 
9781607324614: Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 160732461X ISBN 13 : 9781607324614
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2015

Synopsis

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.

Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics-the Aztecs' understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality-underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics, \ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving-theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology.

Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Maffie is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Maryland.

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Éditeur
University Press of Colorado
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
160732461X
ISBN 13 
9781607324614
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
608
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1607322226 ISBN 13 :  9781607322221
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2014
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