Social Science and Foreign Affairs
December 22, 2015 6:14 AM   Subscribe

 
So what else is new? The social sciences of ancient China (which we can now access through the Classics, the Philosophical Masters, and the Histories) gave intellectual justification for the creation of the Empire, the flip-flopping policies regarding nomadic peoples on the borders, etc. That's what social sciences are for. Purity and disinterestedness are latecomers to the party (if they arrived at all, anywhere).
posted by homerica at 7:44 AM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]


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