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Plato's Ladder of Love takes heavy inspiration from religious ideologies of love specifically the idea that the love we have for God and the love we receive from God is the most pure form of love. This directly parallels Plato's sixth step of the Ladder of Love as Beauty itself is the embodiment of loving someone on the same level that we love God. (Amir, 2001)
(Delony, 2015)
Beauty itself
The beauty of knowledge
Beautiful laws and institutions
Beautiful souls
The ladder of love is a metaphor for the ascent a lover makes from loving only due to physical attraction to something beautiful
All beautiful bodies
A particular beautiful body
(Searle, 2017)
The Ladder of Love can also be categorized as Platonism for the obvious reason that it is a philosophy that Plato created. Like other Platonism philosophies, the Ladder of Love attempts to form a bridge between humanism and science with Christianity. (Felso, 2019)
Created in c.385-370 BC within the text Symposium
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(Markley, n.d.)
Plato's Ladder of Love has not changed significantly since the time it was written other than the dialogue changing to stay relevant with evolution of the English vocabulary throughout the eras. Making it a very insightful and effective tool for entering a relationship now a days. (Blum, 2021)
(Smith, n.d.)
Plato's philosophy of the Ladder of Love has yet to be disproved and also remains an effective way of expressing how the progression of a loving relationship would reach it true potential of true beauty. This is done by combining desire, friendship, and philosophy into the experience of love to transcend Eros love and connects the lovers on a deeper spiritual level. (Perina, 2012)
(Unknown, 2017)