This paper examines how, in Plato's dialogue "The Symposium," defining the exact nature of love during a
drinking party grips
the philosophical imagination of Socrates and numerous other revelers at the house of a man named Agathon. It looks at how the
drinking party includes many
individuals exposing their different ideas about the true nature of love and how only Socrates offers a view of love that encompasses more than simply the relationship between earthly individuals. It shows how, instead, Socrates suggests an individualistic pursuit of love by the soul, where it cleaves to the good in a non-sexual and 'Platonic' form of affection as the ultimate goal of exercising in physical and spiritual love in the world.