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affection
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affection
1. Pathol any disease or pathological condition
2. Psychol any form of mental functioning that involves emotion


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9) As Hock points out, philanthropia in the ancient world would have been a kind of mirror image to friendship, or philia, in which one owes unlimited responsibility to a very limited number of people.
He displays a personal understanding of the value and meaning of love in all its multifarious, interconnected complexity, as eros, philia and agape: of love as physical and sexual expression, of love as friendship, and as other-centered in care and service of the other.
] Herbert Marcuse offered philia rather than iatrikon, which may be the reason that our relation could not develop beyond the point it did.
 
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