id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5641 The Four Loves - Wikipedia .html text/html 1797 209 76 S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments.[1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.[2] Need/gift love[edit] Throughout the rest of the book, Lewis goes on to counterpoint that three-fold, qualitative distinction against the four broad types of loves indicated in his title.[7] In his remaining four chapters, Lewis treats love under four categories ("the highest does not stand without the lowest"), based in part on the four Greek words for love: affection, friendship, eros, and charity. A fictional treatment of these loves is the main theme of Lewis's novel Till We Have Faces. Lewis goes on to say, "to the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. Agape – unconditional "God" love[edit] ^ "Program Two: C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5641.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5641.txt