Crossword-Solution: PHILIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The chapters on _Philia_, in the _Ethics_, might indeed have been written by a modern moralist for modern readers, though it is possible that in his treatment of "friendship with pleasure for its object," and "friendship with advantage for its object," Aristotle is aiming at the vicious sort of paiderastia.

The germ, if we may say so, of the words [Greek: philia, agapê], _amor_, love; _amicitia_, friendship, is the sexual or the parental relation.

The word represents the love that is instinct with reverence, and not love [Greek: philia] which may have in it some quality of passion.

For love, whether we idealize it as [Greek: agapê] or consider it a social instinct as [Greek: philia], cannot be love at all unless it quickens the intelligence as much as it animates the will.

And to create a world or "body" of men and women linked together by love, even though it be outside the normal life of the community, was to create a new form of religious organization, and to achieve for it (so far as it was achieved) what, _mutatis mutandis_, Aristotle held to be the indispensable condition of social life, friendship ([Greek: philia]), "the greatest good of states," for "Socrates and all the world declare," he wrote, that "the unity of the state" is "created by friendship" (Arist.