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As Gerard Hughes points out, in Books VIII and IX of his Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives examples of philia including: . young lovers (1156b2), lifelong friends (1156b12), cities with one another (1157a26), political or business contacts (1158a28), parents and children (1158b20), fellow-voyagers and fellow-soldiers (1159b28), members of the same religious society (1160a19), or of the same ...
Portrait of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, and His Family, by John Smybert (1688–1751). The family in early modern Scotland includes all aspects of kinship and family life, between the Renaissance and the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century in Scotland.
This article is about the phrase. For the film, see Terms of Endearment. For other uses, see Terms of Endearment (disambiguation). A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers ...
Childhood in early modern Scotland includes all aspects of the lives of children, from birth to adulthood, between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century. This period corresponds to the early modern period in Europe, beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation and ending with the beginning of industrialisation and the ...
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]
Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
The Scottish Child Payment is a benefit which parents can claim for a child under 16 years old if the parents are already receiving other payments from the state. It currently stands at £26.70 a ...
There are many lullabies in Scottish song tradition, with well-known examples in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. They include songs which express emotions other than affection for the child – notably " Griogal Cridhe ", which commemorates the beheading of Gregor Roy MacGregor by his father-in-law, Campbell of Glenlyon and brother-in-law ...