Questions for Reflection
Do you agree with Glaucon that most people will do whatever they could get away with if they had the power to be invisible?
How would you behave if you had the magic ring?
Some people think that the reason for being moral is because of rewards or punishments in the afterlife. Is this a worthy motive for being moral? Or does it merely confirm Glaucon’s cynical view that people are concerned to be moral for self-serving, greedy reasons?
4. Which life would you choose: to be an immoral person while people think you are a saint or to be a genuinely moral person who people wrongly punish because they think you are evil? Why?