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The Ring of Gyges

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The Ring of Gyges asks: if a ring of invisibility removed all witnesses and consequences, would anyone stay just — and if so, why?

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Glaucon bets no one stays just; the Republic's answer is character — justice pays inwardly, in the state of the soul, watchers or none.