Socrates' Reductive Approach to Philosophy

The downside of the Socratic view is hell often say things like, take love, and erotic interest we have in other human beings. And let's look at what we're doing there. I mean, something's sacred, but if you really want to understand that sacred activity, you can see that its ends are better achieved in philosophizing. So instead of sex, do philosophy. That recommendation is a recommendation for how to treat the thing as sacred. The idea that the sacred needs to be shared in order to be seen as sacred would explain why there's that initial resistance to the idea that a moral argument could have significance if it weren't overwhelming in everyone's ears.