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Philia (/ ˈ f ɪ l i ə /; from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía)) is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros. In Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics , philia is usually translated as " friendship " or affection . [ 1 ]
Philia (φιλία, philía) means "affectionate regard, friendship", usually "between equals". [8] It is a dispassionate virtuous love. [9] In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, philia is expressed variously as loyalty to friends ("brotherly love"), family, and community; it requires virtue, equality, and familiarity.
Lysis (/ ˈ l aɪ s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Λύσις, genitive case Λύσιδος, showing the stem Λύσιδ-, from which the infrequent translation Lysides), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (), often translated as friendship, while the word's original content was of a much larger and more intimate bond. [1]
The Greek root-phil-originates from the Greek word meaning "love". For example, philosophy (along with the Greek root -soph-meaning "wisdom") is the study of human customs and the significance of life. One of the most common uses of the root -phil-is with philias. A philia is the love or obsession with a particular thing
Philia (Greek: φιλία) is the love between friends as close as siblings in strength and duration. The friendship is the strong bond existing between people who share common values, interests, or activities. [11] Lewis immediately differentiates friendship love from the other loves.
Storge (/ ˈ s t ɔːr ɡ i / STOR-gee; [1] from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ) 'love, affection'), [2] or familial love, refers to natural or instinctual affection, [1] [3] such as the love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa. In social psychology, another term for love between good friends is philia. [3]
Unlike eros, which was more commonly used by men, philia magic was utilized by women and others who were considered to be social inferiors. Since there was an emphasis on service to the state in Greco-Roman culture, these social inferiors felt like they were doing their country a service.
In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI discusses three of the four greek relationship terms: eros, philia and agape, and contrasts between them. In agape, for Benedict, one gives of oneself to another; in eros, the self seeks to receive from another self; philia is the mutual love between friends