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1. There are four words for love in Greek: stergo, phileo, eros, and agapao (verbal form). 2. Eros is not used at all in the New Testament and stergo only in combined forms. 3. Phileo is the word for love of a friend or relative, but is often used equivalently to agapao in Greek culture and in the New Testament. 4.
As such, it corresponds precisely to to philein or “loving” as Aristotle defines it in the Rhetoric: “Let to philein be wishing for someone the things that he deems good, for the sake of that person and not oneself”. Two points are clear from Aristotle’s definition of love.
Friendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history.
19 lip 2018 · Having defined “loving,” Aristotle then offers a second definition (2.4, 1381a1–2): “A philos [that is, a friend] is a person who is both loving [philōn] and loved in return [antiphiloumenos],” and he adds: “Those who believe that they are so disposed toward one another believe that they are philoi [that is, friends].”
The words, “I love you,” take on very different meanings when said to a spouse, to a parent, or to a friend. While the English language appointed only one word to the multifaceted concept of “love,” the Greeks invented three words for it: “eros,” “philia,” and “agape.”
In ancient Greece, the term philia covered all relationships of love and friendly feel-ings between intimate lovers, family members and citizens of one’s own commu-nity.
11 sty 2021 · Based on a philosophical interpretation of the Ancient concepts, philia and agape, the present contribution offers a comparative study of the ancient Greek ethics of friendship and the Christian theology of love.
