The whole collection · No. 3 of 36
For the things nobody would ever find out about.
In Book II of Plato’s Republic, Glaucon tells of a shepherd who finds a ring that makes him invisible, and says anyone with it “could safely take what he liked out of the market” (Jowett’s translation). That’s Glaucon’s challenge, not Plato’s view: Socrates spends the rest of the book answering it.
Turn the ring on his finger until he vanishes. Then help yourself.
Take away the audience and you find out what was holding you up: the watching, or something of your own.
Ask yourself. Would you still do it if nobody would ever know?
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