Philia

as long as the person doesn’t feel any distress about their paraphilia then it will remain just that, a paraphilia and not a paraphilic disorder, (Brannon, 2013). While paraphilia makes me immediately think of pedophilia (mostly likely because of philia,) there are actual plenty of types of paraphilia that are harmless, and that aren’t considered sexual offenses (Hucker, 2005). For instance, a person may enjoy watching other people undress or have sexual intercourse. If the person or people…

Introduction Originating from the Greek words ‘haima’, meaning blood, and ‘philia’, meaning friend, hemophilia is a medical condition in which the individual lacks a certain clotting factor which prevents bleeding as a result of injury. In order of rarity from most to least, it features type A, B and C hemophilia and various severity levels. Type A hemophilia consists of 90% of cases, in which the individual lacks clotting factor VIII and 70% of patients have a severe level of hemophilia.…

We can give credit to the Greeks and Romans for a lot of things we have today. Seriously, big shout out to them for creating concrete, developing newspapers, sanitation and sewage systems, roads, and much more. Of course those all have personal impacts, I really couldn’t imagine life without some of these things but to go in deeper is a harder task. Things I truly love originate from ancient Greece and Rome like theater, philosophy, the mythology of these two places and so on. Also, the modern…

Philosophy plays a significant role on examining religious claims to certainty regarding metaphysical reality because it questions the unquestionable, and challenges ideas that have been in motion for centuries. As stated in the book, Elements of Culture, by Susan Andreatta, “religions support the status quo by keeping people in line through supernatural sanctions, reliving social conflict, and providing explainations for unfortunate events.” Religions provide knowledge of the unknown, or at…

individuals or all conscious creatures” (Wikipedia references, 2016). Many societies live and do for their community and those that break that ‘habit’ are thought to be immoral. Philosophical approach. Philosophy, the love of wisdom, from the Greek terms philia (love or friendship), and sophia (wisdom) (Krasermann,…

misunderstood because everyone speaks love in a different language. The five languages Chapman describes are: words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, gifts, and quality time. She also uses the four Greek definitions of love: storge, philia, eros, and agape, to portray how these different kinds of love are confused in the English language because the only word used for love is “love”. She continued using the Greeks as an example by stating, “But while the Greeks gave love four…

Aristotle had many views on how friendships worked and the different kind of friendships we have. According to Aristotle there are three different kinds of friendships. These three kinds of friendships are ones of use, pleasure and goodness. Aristotle says that a friendship of “utility do not love each other for themselves but in virtue of some good which they get from each other.” (VIII.3) People who love their friendship of utility only love to receive what is pleasant for themselves. Also…

According to German Psychologist Erich Fromm, man is required to rise above his separation within himself and escape the confines of isolation. Throughout time, religion, race and creed, man has been answering the question of loneliness throughout their life, and have always craved to “overcome separateness, how to achieve union, how to transcend one’s own individual life and find atonement”. However, many attempts to fill the void in our heats by our ancestors have failed to do so, as they…

leaders who have inspired him to believe in the peaceful, non violent method and he explains the benefits of that theory. Near the end he mentions six basic aspects of this philosophy in which the fifth aspect talks about the three kinds of love, agape, philia, and eros. These kinds of love were put in to inspire the reader and open their eyes to the importance of getting along with their neighbor, despite their differences. By learning these kinds of love we get to understand the relationships…

being sexually attracted to those in the primise of their adolescene was a perfectly natural male reaction. In fact, so much so, that Ephebophilia, the sexual attraction to woman in late adolescene, wasn't even considered a medical condition, or a 'philia', nor did it appear as a condition in the DSMV, the bible of psychiatric disorders. It was perfectly natural, which is why the words 'teen porn' were the most searched on the Internet. Hell, even Dr McHugh wasn't averse to entertaining himself…