ABSTRACT
A central issue throughout Plato's dialogues concerns the relation between virtue, non-moral goods (i.e. goods other than virtue), and happiness. Socrates believes that people tend to over-estimate the relative importance of non-moral goods such as wealth, health, and honour, and to under-estimate the relative importance of virtue (Apology 29d-30b). This general claim is a constant theme of the dialogues, but Plato seems to explain it differently in different dialogues.
