I was told to look up the word Philiast while meditating this morning. Assume it was my unconscious. We all believe in that.
I came up with Philia. Here is what Wikipedia has to say: Philia (/ˈfɪliə/; Ancient Greek: φιλία), often translated “brotherly love“, is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros. In Aristotle‘s Nicomachean Ethics, philia is usually translated as “friendship” or affection.[1] The complete opposite is called a phobia.
Logically, a Philiast would be someone who practices brotherly or affectionate love. It would in theory be the sort of thing implied in calling everyone comrade, which is pretty close to friend, and certainly brother and sister.
Philiasm would, I suppose, be the creed that we should love one another.
Where is the Philiasm in the world, outside of religious communities?
Is it not conspicuous, when seen from this perspective, that the Left focuses nearly entirely on phobias? Why, to take one obvious example, would the goal be to exclude and demonize “racists” rather than to reform them, teach them, and bring them in the fold? Why is love so conspicuously absent? Why are the dominant emotions anger, rejection and hatred?
The obvious answer to me is that the whole thing is based on hatred, and polarizing and dividing people is a classic road to power and control.
I will comment though as well that those other words–storge, agape and eros–are good words too. It is an odd fact of human consciousness that it can seem easier sometimes to feel things we have words for.
And is the study of love not something of intrinsic importance? I remember agape from Sunday school but I had to look up storge.
Should we not all make an effort to take up Philiasm, now that it has been named? Brother? Sister?