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OP - April 12, 2016, 09:55 AM

Review of 'Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts'

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/21/revolutionary-discovery-in-china/
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'For over two millennia,’ Ian Johnson writes, ‘all our knowledge of China’s great philosophical schools was limited to texts revised after the Qin unification.’ Now a trove of recently discovered ancient documents, written on strips of bamboo, ‘is helping to reshape our understanding of China’s contentious past.’

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Reply #1 - April 12, 2016, 04:26 PM

Outstanding! Wow. 2,500 years ago?? Add this to the 'Indian Machievelli' http://www.jstor.org/stable/2142992?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Did Aliens visit us around that time?? The reason being that a lot of philosophies and thinkers emerged around that time that laid the foundations for what was to follow.

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Reply #2 - April 12, 2016, 04:47 PM

It's all the Axial Age, the development of ideas in China, India and Greece and the Near East at around the same time. There must have been reasons for this - it's less clear what they were.

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Reply #3 - April 12, 2016, 04:53 PM

Quote from: Jedi on April 12, 2016, 04:26 PM
Outstanding! Wow. 2,500 years ago?? Add this to the 'Indian Machievelli' http://www.jstor.org/stable/2142992?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Did Aliens visit us around that time?? The reason being that a lot of philosophies and thinkers emerged around that time that laid the foundations for what was to follow.

Aliens. Angels. Same thing...
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Reply #4 - April 12, 2016, 09:31 PM

Quote from: zeca on April 12, 2016, 04:47 PM
It's all the Axial Age, the development of ideas in China, India and Greece and the Near East at around the same time. There must have been reasons for this - it's less clear what they were.

Didn't you hear me? ALIENS!!!

The History Channel devoted whole seasons to this!

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Reply #5 - April 13, 2016, 07:43 PM

Quote from: Jedi on April 12, 2016, 04:26 PM
Did Aliens visit us around that time?? The reason being that a lot of philosophies and thinkers emerged around that time that laid the foundations for what was to follow.

Oh no you didn't!
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