Max Rose’s Reviews > C.S. Lewis - The 4 (Four) Loves > Status Update

I’ll be glad to finish this book so I have the whole thing—with its full context—to mull over. I split the Eros chapter in two and honestly feel like I forgot everything I read yesterday. When I’m done, I think the most memorable parts will just bubble to the top of my mind every once in a while. I’d definitely revisit each of these chapters on their own in the future.

Friendship ✅ Very good chapter, quite dense but less abstract than the previous chapters because he gives lots of relatable examples of friendship. One of the key points of the chapter: friendships have to be about something. Thus, someone who “just wants more friends” will have a hard time finding any because you find friends in a shared belief about something—something more than friendship itself.

Finished Affection. The book is sort of a blur of ideas, not because Lewis is writing poorly, but because he’s diving deeper and more introspectively into concepts of Love than I ever considered. I don’t go to therapy and I doubt Lewis did but he seems to understand human nature and the sin that takes place in tiny every day occurrences better than most anyone. It’s a little hard to follow though.

Finished the intro and the first chapter (there’s 5) and it’s pretty dense and abstract at times. Lots of neat insights about the love of nature and the love of one’s country though.

Finished the introduction and it’s pretty dense like Abolition of Man but I’m tracking so far. Also came across the quote my dad has said dozens of times over the years, “God is love, but love is not God”. Seems like that is a hugely important part of Lewis’s thesis here.