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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Philia"”.
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Agape-eros e Agape-philia nell’antico e nuovo testamento: l’importanza dell’Agape nelle storie d’amore e di amicizia
… amor humano en todas sus formas: el eros y la philia. El objetivo principal es demostrar que el agape, lejos de ser un concepto abstracto, actúa como una fuerza dinámica y transformadora capaz de orientar el amor humano hacia la comunión y la plenitud. En particular, se muestra cómo el eros y …
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Plato’s Lysis and Aristotle’s Notion of Friendship
… for Aristotle’s analysis of friendship (philia, φιλία). The dialogue raises four central questions: who is the friend—the lover or the beloved? Are friends alike or unlike? Are friends good or bad people? And what is the deep ground of loving friends? Although Socrates leaves each of …
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Attending to others: ethics, love and the individual
… studies of the loves of Eros, Agape and Philia; that of M.C.D’Arcy, and that of Aelred of Rieveaulx as amplified by Andrew Sullivan. I then progress to an account of compassion and of friendship seen outside of any theological context. I argue that the attention to others found in certain …
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Fashion in an Age of Transindividual Disruption: Feeling the fashion milieu through fashion media and mobile phone technology
… media accessed through mobile devices fosters philia (social connection), it simultaneously disrupts transindividual relations, generating patterns of digital dependency characterized by anxiety and addictive behaviours. This research advances scholarly understanding of how mobile-mediated …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
… that are indicated in such texts, particularly philia, and I consider expressions of this discourse in other epigrammatic contexts, especially funerary. I conclude with a study of the word philemosyne, which appears in an interestingly broad variety of epigrams. In Chapter 4, I consider …
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snoDB: An interconnected online database of human snoRNA
RNA is more than just a transitory molecule between DNA and proteins. Beyond the scope of protein-coding RNAs lies a vast underexplored landscape of non-coding RNAs (ncRNA). These RNAs have been slowly uncovered since the 1960s but it took until the turn of the century, and the advent of …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… individual against others, and how Aristotelian philia, Theophrastian oikeiotês and Stoic oikeiōsis came to stand in opposition to the fear-driven and compact-based accounts of social formation favoured by the Epicureans. The second section considers how the ancient accounts of impulsive …
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Context-aware collaborative storage and programming for mobile users
… in the network. The proposed solution, Philia, achieves higher content availability and storage fairness than several comparison systems. The dissertation concludes with a high-level distributed programming model, which efficiently uses computing resources on a cloud-assisted, …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… of democratic politics since Aristotle suggested philia as fundamental to citizenship. In the U.S. context, male friendship in particular functioned as model for civic association in the nascent republic, and continued to be employed as a figure of egalitarian association in canonical works of …
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"""Dann ist und Bleibt eine Korrespondenz lebendig"" Romantic Dialogue in the Letters and Works of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, and Karoline von Günderrode"
… address multiple topics, it is love (agape, philia, eros) that is at the center of their creative work. Brentano von Arnim connects the process of creative writing to the act of speaking rooted in a divine model of communication where “love is only gods’ conversation” and “question and sweet …
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Life,love and loss (under a few trees)
… Eros, the idea of sexual passion and desire; Philia, or deep friendship; Agape, or love for everyone and Storge, or longstanding familial love. Loss is something which we all will experience, the more so if we have loved. My poems in this category are mostly concerned with death and grief but …
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The concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC
… its relevance to the co-operative standard of philia, its concern with positive regard for others, especially suppliants and guests and the particular form which the concept takes with regard to sex, especially in women. These are broadly the categories which also obtain in subsequent chapters. …