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Plato, "The Ring of Gyges" In "The Ring of Gyges" we are told about a shepherd, for the king of Lydia, named Gyges. One day as Gyges was letting his flock graze, an earthquake opened the Earth before him. Gyges curiously climbs down into the opening to investigate where in he finds a hollow horse made of bronze with doors. He enters the horse thru these doors and he finds a dead body that's only …

…and act justly, we do not act that way because it was born within us. Plato says that no man, when faced with the opportunity, could act justly and with morals if his actions could not be held against him. We would call the man, who could wear the ring and act justly, an idiot but we would praise him for his self control out of fear that we too maybe the victim of injustice.