Sentences with phrase «of philia»

«In such a case the origin of the philia is in utility, but the affection is not reducible to the mutual appreciation of one another's serviceability.»

In classical Greek it carries «none of the magical power of eros and hardly any of the warmth of philia....

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D. S. Bailey discusses the relations of eros, philia, and agape and remarks:

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

Or as Tillich has it, «The appetitus of every being to fulfil itself through union with other beings is universal...» (32) Agape, the love that gives with no thought of return; eros, the love that finds the beloved valuable, and philia, the love that shares and works for the vision of the good - none of these can be reduced to sexual desire, but all of them in different ways attest to the oneness of love, so evident in sexual union, as «that which drives everything that is towards everything else that is.»

The translators [of the Septuagint] probably chose this term because its use was less common and its meaning more unspecified than either philia or eros.

On a somewhat lesser level of importance, we know love as philia, friendship, camaraderie.6 It is not wrong to attribute all these aspects of love to God.

To begin with the first of these questions, it must be recalled that in the Bible it is agape, not philia or eros, that is a divine demand.

Fillon has thus positioned himself to attract support from some of the ardent Catholics who, exasperated by the secularism and EU - philia of French elites, have shifted their allegiance to the FN in recent years.

When we speak of loving those who oppose us we refer to neither eros nor philia; we speak of a love which is expressed in the Greek word agape.

Anders Nygren to the contrary notwithstanding, our English language may reveal more about how most of us actually experience the Greek agape, caritas, eros and philia when it simply mixes them all up and calls them «love.»

The Greeks had many different words for the different kinds of love (yes, agape, and also philia and eros and I think more besides that).

He suggests the necessity of distinguishing between the Greek words philos (friend) and philia (usually translated «friendship,» but perhaps more accurately, he says, translated «loving relationship»).

Also, he sees freedom and equality as perennial principles of justice that, like agape in relation to philia and justice, serve as judgment on their approximations (or lack thereof), and call communities to fuller approximations.

In fact, there may be such a word: C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves argues that on a level below genuine friendship — philia, which in Greek tradition is truly a form of love, just as much as eros (sexual love) or storge (familial affection)-- lies companionship.

He sees things, then disappears into his car and drives, and all the while the film becomes obsessed by the joining of male and female automobile parts in the pits: the swapping of bits, the stroking of rods, the cry of pistons as something exactly as mysterious and laden as e.e. cummings's sly ode to auto - philia, «she being brand.»

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