ng of Gyges, in fact, behaving justly will have the most rewards. Ultimately, the difficulty with Socrates' arguments is that they rely on equating things on to the next in a chain that eventually leads back to the original proposition. But the logic of these connections seems built more on assumptions than on objective truth. This is in keeping with his stance that ultimately what he says is right is right because he is a philosopher, and therefore is by his nature right. The dialectic seems more of a game to get the hearer to go along. ...
