One school of thought for this is that friendship requires a certain amount of giving without a return of exclusivity. It’s interesting to note that the ancient world held friendship to such high esteem. The names given to these loves were philia, eros, storge, and agape.įor the purposes of this article, I would like to focus on the first of these, The ‘philia’ form of love. CS Lewis wrote “To the ancients, friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves”, It was said to be “the crown of life and the school of virtue…’ Is love, this most unique of the human experiences and capacities simply a feeling? Indeed love itself is so complex that the ancient Greeks rightly had four names for it.
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