Philia

What is love, is presumably the second hardest question to answer, abutting what is the meaning of life. How life can have one meaning to one person, it can have a completely non-identical answer to a person with different values. Likewise, love also has numerous different principles, each changing for the type of person and or situation, therefore, it is next to impossible to exactly pinpoint what love is. Perhaps it can simply be answered as, an intense feeling of deep connection, yet that…

Is love good for you? In this topic I will dive into the depths of the basis of love and discover if this powerful emotion is truly beneficial. Everybody has their own definition of love and indulge in it for different reasons. First defining what love is will be the first step in the process. Is love a feeling that comes from sexual attraction? Does it derive from connection of virtuous ideals? Is it innately a feeling we understand but cannot describe logically? Surfing through these ideas…

use when you’re talking about your favorite TV show. Even though we use the same word to describe the different levels of love the ancient Greeks was able distinguished four different words for love and each one has their own unique meaning: storge, philia, eros, and agape. The first type of love, storge, is the natural familial love. I believe we experience this type of love because it helps us connect with our immediate families and our immediate family are the people we meet first. When…

The documentary Singapore: Biophilic City, explores the development and changes the city of Singapore has undergone to become an innovative biophilic city. The intended audience for this documentary is most likely people who are interested in urban development. In addition, this documentary could also be intended for people interested or studying sustainability. The documentary presented the positive attributes of creating a biophilic city, such as improving the lives of its population through…

Utilitarian’s know little of love, but that does not mean they cannot sustain relationships. In C.S Lewis’s, “The Four Love’s”, he expresses, storge, philia, eros, and agape. Storge may be seen mostly as affection. This type of love does not require equality. It is the love that children have for their parents or an owner for his/her dog. Is it not true that utilitarian’s have parents and thus love them? Sadly, it is possible for someone not to love their parents; however it is not possible that…

Philia and I are seventeen and we’re adventurers of the Misaki family that no longer exist due to an unfortunate accident eight years ago. Since we were always alone, we would spend our time searching for treasures and having fun until the day the king ordered that all homeless children in his nation to train and become a soldier. The life of a soldier was difficult and exhausting, but the adventures and artifacts we found made us powerful and acknowledgeable. After a few years of adventuring,…

Friendship and Hope: Hospitality and New Solidarity Doing theology comparatively together is inviting us to live with the avoidable tension between “the commitment to the Christian tradition” and “openness to the truths of non-Christian religions.” The tension creates a double commitment when doing theology comparatively. We need to go beyond religious tolerance to take the steps interreligious engagement in order to build a deeper interreligious friendship and bring new hope in hospitality…

WHAT IS THE OBJECT AND PURPOSE OF LOVE ACCORDING TO DIOTIMA? Whereas many of the interlocutors present in the symposium are unclear / ambiguous in their presentation / definition of the dichotomy present between love and desire, Socrates recounts that Diotima proposes that “love” can be classified as the “desire” which is shared between two (people); (ideally) coming to forge a potent and powerful bond between them. WHAT DOES DIOTIMA CLAIM LIES MIDWAY BETWEEN WISDOM OR KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE?…

The social life of a human being is characterized by social interactions. These social interactions are associated with emotions such as love and hate and are the building blocks for social structure (Anderson, Margaret, Taylor 76). There are several existing theories with respect to the biological and psychoanalytical aspects of love and hate. I will be specifically analyzing theories regarding the psychoanalytical aspect. A couple of interpretations that stand out are Freud, Melanie Klein, Ian…

The use of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook in 21st century has become ubiquitous. In recent years, the number of users of Facebook has increased exponentially. AscomScore, a company specialized in media measurements and headquartered in Reston, VA reported, the unique visitors of Facebook site in US was about 2 million in November 2004. Exactly one decade later, the number has grown approximately 50 times to 102 million (comScore 1). By September 2015 the unique visitors of…