Problem
From the book The Moral Life 5th Edition by Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn in chapter 8. Page 504 (regarding Plato's books 2 and 9 about The Ring of Gyges):
For Further Reflection
• Which would you choose to be, Glaucon's good but suffering person or his bad but successful person? Is there a third alternative?
• Socrates' answer to Glaucon is that, despite appearances, we should choose the life of the "unsuccessful" just person because it is to our advantage to be moral. Socrates' answer depends on a notion of mental health. He contends that immorality corrupts the inner person, so that one is happy or unhappy in exact proportion to one's moral integrity. Is this a plausible reply?
• Is the good always good for you?