The Grave-Robbed Ancient Manuscripts That Are Changing Our Understanding Of History And Philosophy

“The texts also show a world in which magic and divination, even in the supposedly secular world of Confucius, played a much larger part than has been realized. And instead of an age in which sages neatly espoused discrete schools of philosophy, we now see a more fluid, dynamic world of vigorously competing views — the sort of robust exchange of ideas rarely prominent in subsequent eras.”