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Discourses Of The Elders The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation Sebastian Purcell

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Discourses Of The Elders The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation Sebastian Purcell
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 4.51 MB
Pages: 240
Author: Sebastian Purcell
ISBN: 9781324020585, 132402058X
Language: English
Year: 2023

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Discourses Of The Elders The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation Sebastian Purcell by Sebastian Purcell 9781324020585, 132402058X instant download after payment.

A philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife, or individualism, but in a rooted communal life.

Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language—one of the earliest transcripts being the Huehuetlatolli, or Discourses of the Elders, compiled by Friar Andrés de Olmos circa 1535.

Novel in its form, the Discourses consists of short conversations between elders and young people on how to achieve a meaningful and morally sound life. The Aztecs had a metaphysical tradition but no concept of "being." They considered the mind an embodied force, present not...

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