•  “Ladder of Love”

The “Ladder of Love” has a lot of different aspects that come together and define what love basically is. The first step is that a person loves their body and loves everyone’s bodies. They need to find bodies beautiful, all types of bodies. After they have found the physical beauty, the person must learn to find the beauty of the souls that are within the bodies. This allows for a love that’s deep that the physical being. This leads to the love of certain types of thinking and certain types of mentality, since when you fall in love with a soul you are finding beauty in their unique thinking. This brings love to its final step of knowledge or which is also known as beliefs. Furthermore, in today’s time people are beginning to love their thick bodies because they are loving their bodies and finding themselves to be beautiful on the inside regardless of what society labels them as. By reading Symposium by Plato, Diotima’s explanation of “Ladders of Love” to Socrates will enable the reader to see true beauty in everyone and everything in its true initial form.