Examples of this deep and abiding love between two friends are David and Jonathan in the Bible,Orestes and Pylades in Greek mythology, Roland and Oliver and Amis and Amiles from French literature.
However, he also notes that friendship love is a freely chosen love, thereby setting it above other forms of love. Lewis described this as friendship love-”the least biological, organic, instinctive, gregarious, and necessary…the least natural of loves.” He suggests this because man does not need friendship love in order to reproduce. It is a strong and lasting bond between people with common values, interests, and/or activities. Philios ( philíos, Greek: φιλία ) is the love between close friends. Lewis says it is “built-in” or “ready-made,” is expected and liable to “go bad,” and is a dependency-based love that risks extinction when needs are not met.
However, the strength of this love is lacking. Lewis referred to it as affection.Īccording to Lewis, this kind of love is based on both Need-love and Gift-love and it generates human happiness. Storge ( storgē, Greek : στοργή ) is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance. Because “God is Love” (1 John 4:8) understanding how the Greeks distinguished love is helpful. Borrowing from Lewis’s writings, let consider how we should understand love. He did this by defining and explaining the four Greek words for love used in the Bible- storge (affection), phileo (friendship), eros (romantic), and agape (sacrificial). Not all love is the same, so after addressing distinctions of need and love, Lewis then addressed four categories of love.
To his exploration of Need-love and Gift-love, he added what he called “a third element”- Appreciative-love. water for the thirsty) and Pleasures of Appreciation (e.g. In his book, Lewis distinguishes between Need-pleasures (e.g. The book examines love from Christian and philosophical perspectives. Lewis written from a series of radio talks in 1958 and published in 1960.
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