How Is Love Revealed In Plato's Symposium

In Plato’s Symposium, he tells a story of a dinner party that unfolded in Athens, at Agathon's (The Poet) house, with guest such as (Socrates, Phaedrus, Aristophanes, etc) who was later ask to give a speech about what they thought Love is. After, everyone has spoken and at this point a little drunk, Socrates expresses, how most of us start to learn about love in a very immediate and physical way, by being powerfully attracted to a person’s face, and body, this would be called romantic/sexual love or the love for beautiful bodies and also, the starting step in Diotima’s Ladder of love. The next step would be Love for political soul/ideas, then, Scientific soul (Love for knowledge and scientific ideas), Love for Wisdom (philosophy), and lastly, Beauty itself. To socrates the love of one beautiful person should not be the (whole story), it should be an invitation to step on the ladder, that would later lead you to an appreciation of Beauty itself, a Love for
In Symposium, Phaedrus, is the first to start his speech. He sees love almost as a supernatural being or “a great God”. He, believes that love should only be between Man and a young boy, because the Lover (Man) can give the beloved (young boy), a certain guidance that they would need to live well, a type of guidance that would give them a “sense of shame at acting shamefully, and a sense of pride in acting well”(178d). Meaning, that love does not make you do bad things, only acts of good. This type of love, I believe can be interpreted in modern day society, as the love between a father and their son. A love that is almost as a admiration, where the young boy sees his father as a role model, who he wishes to become in the near future. This idea can be related to Haemon and Creon, the father and son duo, whose relationship was that in the beginning, but later worsen; base on certain events that