Please read chapter 1 of C S Lewiss The Four Loves After rea

Please read chapter 1 of C. S. Lewis\'s \"The Four Loves\". After reading chapter 1 entitled Likingsand love for the Sub Human, write your thoughts on the main theme of the chapter. Did you agree with this main theme or not? Why do you agree or disagree? 300 word esssay, must have references. High quality paper

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Charity is not an act for Lewis, as in \"acts of charity\" rather it is a type of love, the highest form, built upon the other three types of \"natural\" love. Charity is a kind of self-giving love (he distinguishes \"gift-love\" from \"need-love\") but one which comes from the purest of places. Ultimately, charity is God\'s love to humanity. As we become like Christ through Christian maturity, we also begin to express charity to others. Our love to God is always a mix of such gift-love, but also of need-love of the being who acknowledges its utter dependence on its creator.

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.
... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, \'Here comes one who will augment our loves.\' For in this love \'to divide is not to take away.

Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all

yes i agree this story for love for the sub human

Every Christian would agree that a man\'s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. But man\'s love for God, from the very nature of the case, must always be very largely, and must often be entirely, a Need-love.