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philia
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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- 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.