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The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Socratic Approach to Life, You Know?

Socrates is messing with the sacred. He's trying to show people that they're doing a bad job in relation to that thing. If you care about health in your body, what you really should care about is health of your soul. So it's a kind of upward move in the sacred, but it really gives him argumentative leverage on people.

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