The Concept of Friendship

Before some connections to politics begin to be made, different meanings of friendship are explored, starting with Western concepts ranging from Greek and Latin terminology, such as philia, eros, agape, xenia, amicitia and caritas, to associations of friendship with virtue, kinship, fraternity, gyn/affection, solidarity, and networking, to postmodern concepts such as aimance and lovence, through to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Samoan, Māori, and Hawaiian terms for friendship.