# Rival Lovers, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue

- Identifiant : `plato.lovers`
- Auteur : Plato
- URL canonique : https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lovers/
- Empreinte : `146420fd4d7029bba0e63f1b8e34e79e282166f7e269afd7208ac24f40edf2a8`

## What you will learn

Distinguish polymathy from philosophical competence, follow the link between self-knowledge and government, and qualify the rejected attribution.

## Summary

One rival values bodily training and the other learned study. Socrates leads the latter to admit that encyclopedic range does not guarantee competence and seeks knowledge able to discern justice in private and public affairs.

The work is generally excluded from Plato’s authentic corpus. Its construction nevertheless witnesses an ancient way of defining philosophy against particular crafts. That reception can be studied without automatically assigning its conclusions to Plato.