Reflections on God … Man … Life
In my last post, I reviewed the love of Affection, as C. S. Lewis explains it in his masterful work, The Four Loves. Lewis has affection for Affection, as he states near the end of that chapter, “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” Yet, he spends the last part of the chapter (as he does in the following chapters on Friendship and Eros) pointing to the dangers that can… Read more »
The first of the “four loves” that C. S. Lewis explains in his book with that title is Affection. The family is where affection may begin, but Lewis extends it further. “Almost anyone can become an object of Affection,” he notes, and then adds that one can also include “the ugly, the stupid, even the exasperating.” It ignores the barriers of age, sex, class, and education. It can exist between a clever young man from the university and an old… Read more »