The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)
Minds Almost Meeting
Are We Treating Socrates as Sacred?
When we treat human beings as sacred, we treat them as avatars of something. That's certainly the only way in which Socrates would tolerate this attitude. To treat Socrates as sacred is to say, look, I don't understand how things work. And that kind of trust is necessary to pursue these long-term projects. But you can treat them sacredly either at either extreme of no priests at all or highly venerated, fully trusted Socrates.
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