>The new wise people's wisdom is much more relevant. Sure, but which ones? The reason we study people from 2,000 years ago is not that no one else is having t

>The new wise people's wisdom is much more relevant. Sure, but which ones? The reason we study people from 2,000 years ago is not that no one else is having those same thoughts (or better ones) today. It's because if something survives for 2,000 years, there's a reason for it. Enough cultures over centuries felt that what these people had to say was important enough to be passed down. It's the same reason we don't seriously study philosophers until they are dead. It takes decades to determine if their corpus is even a meaningful contribution to the canon.