The strength of the common good can be traced through the Greek forms of #love.
#Eros is appetitive and possessive—the selfish engine of market exchange, always hungry to consume more.
#Philia runs deeper: once the bond of civic friendship, the solidarity that held republican citizens together in the shared polis, in koinonia.
#Agape goes further still: self-giving, gratuitous, oriented to the good itself.




