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philia
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Also known as brotherly love

thumb| Detail from Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1868)

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paraphilia
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name in kana
ピリア
opposite of
phobia
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Category:Philias
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  • Aristotle's view
  • Types
  • Self-sufficiency
  • Altruism and egoism
  • See also
  • References
  • Works cited
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb| Detail from Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to His Friends by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1868)

Philia (; ) is one of the four ancient Greek words for love, alongside storge, agape and eros. In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, philia is commonly translated as friendship or affection. Its conceptual opposite is phobia, which denotes fear or aversion.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “philia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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