The One Ring Plato warned us about

References: Plato, Republic, Book II, 357a–367e — Glaucon's challenge and the Ring of Gyges (especially 359c–360d). Plato, Republic, Book IV, 436a–444e — Plato's account of the three parts of the soul and justice as order within the soul. Plato, Republic, Book IX, 571a–580c — the unjust life versus the just life and the question of happiness. Plato, Republic, Book II, 361b–362c — the contrast between the genuinely just person and the person who merely appears just. Plato, Crito, 48a–49e — Socrates' argument that we must consider what is right rather than what other people think, and that one must never do wrong. Plato, Crito, 53a–54e — Socrates' concern with what is right and with harming oneself through wrongdoing.