What does Philia mean ?
Philia means "friendship" in ancient Greek. Where the French language has only one word, “love”, ancient Greek has four: “éros” (sexual desire), “philia” (friendship), “agapè” (altruism), and “storgê”. (family love). For Aristotle, Philia is a perfect friendship, based on equality and reciprocal benevolence, which brings together an extreme diversity of ways of being and forms of action: benevolence and benevolence, philanthropy and humanism.
The word certainly has an affective and sentimental dimension, but this semantic field of Philia "attachment and benevolence, in general, family or romantic relationships" has a much broader and richer meaning.
Philia also refers to hospitality, belonging to a social group, harmony, all of which are born of friendship, the truest form of justice. The Philia therefore includes a political meaning – the civic friendship which unites the cities –, and even a cosmological one, between the different parts of the body of the world.