Citation Information for Plato's
“The Myth of the
Ring of Gyges”
Philosophical Ethics
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Citation Information for “Plato,
‘The Myth of the Ring of Gyges’”
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“What man, at all events, could claim to be entrusted with higher knowledge, and confidently assert that he would use the Ring of Gyges, the Philosopher's Stone, or the Elixir of Life, so as to further the highest spiritual interests of himself and of the world? ”
F.C.S. Schiller, Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1874), 304.)
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