AGAPE—this was the great and generous kind that we would describe as “charity” and which could refer to any holy kind of love, such as parents for their children or the love of worshippers for their god.98 EROS—the strain of love named after the god, or after whom the god is named. The kind that gets us into most trouble. So much more than affectionate, so much less than spiritual, eros and the erotic can lead us to glory and to disgrace, to the highest pitch of happiness and the deepest pit of despair. PHILIA—the form of love applied to friendship, partiality, and fondness. We see its traces
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