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Socrates and Diotima on love

In Plato's Symposium, Diotima teaches that love begins in the body but ascends toward beauty itself, moving from desire for one person to love of wisdom and truth. Her vision offers a ladder: you can start in passion and climb toward something vast, or recognize that the greatest loves contain both the particular and the transcendent at once.

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