The Four Loves
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 144 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5122-3948-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Four Loves is a book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian perspective through thought experiments. The content of the examination is prefaced by Lewis' admission that he initially mistook St. John's words "God is Love" for a simple inroad to his topic. By distinguishing need-love (such as the love of a child for its mother) from gift-love (epitomized by God's love for humanity), Lewis happens upon the contemplative that the natures of even these basic categorizations of love are more complicated than they, at first, seem. As a result of this, he formulates the foundation of his topic ("the highest does not stand without the lowest") by exploring the nature of pleasure, and then divides love into four categories, based in part on the four Greek words for love this is: affection, friendship, eros, and charity. Lewis state that just as Lucifer—a former archangel—perverted himself by pride and fell into...
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