Although Chen Xi would occasionally look down on historical figures, he rarely despises those ancient thinkers and the developmental course of classical science.
In the previous era, namely the Pre-Qin period, Chen Xi truly wished to glimpse its entirety. However, history is history, and he can only understand the brilliance of that era's wisdom through classic books.
If the era after the Pre-Qin period was one of pursuing schools of thought, followed by gradually falling behind, then before the Pre-Qin period, it was an era of pursuing the ideas of various schools of thought.
Can you imagine that in an era of famine and hardship, someone proposed the ultimate state of socialism? In that era, someone introduced the concept of Utopia, and soon after, others developed anti-Utopian ideas, even building a complete theoretical framework on that basis.
