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#philia — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. The strength of the common good can be traced through the Greek forms of #love.

    #Eros is appetitive and possessive—the selfish engine of market exchange, always hungry to consume more.

    #Philia runs deeper: once the bond of civic friendship, the solidarity that held republican citizens together in the shared polis, in koinonia.

    #Agape goes further still: self-giving, gratuitous, oriented to the good itself.