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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian

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To: marcos who wrote (5967)5/23/2000 12:48:00 AM
From: Achilles  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
storge is the fourth, and it usually refers to familial affection.

The idea that there are four Greek words for our one word, 'love', is a bit of a misconception, imo. Several of the pieces don't really fit very well: eros, for example, is not really what we call love at all, but 'desire'. Now obviously this can happen within a loving relationship, but the word itself does not imply any such relationship. And philia can normally engulf most of the meanings reserved for storge and agape.

The real problem with the idea is that there are not four words for love in Greek: there are a lot more. And there is not one word for this range of affectionate feelings in English either. Our language is just as flexible as theirs was.
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