Talk:The Four Loves

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Platonism[edit]

Surely the article should mention the correspondence of Lewis's "need-love" and "gift-love" to the Platonic Penia (Poverty or Need) and Poros (Plenty)?

I'm an idiot, please help me, internet![edit]

I had to The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis for sociology and now i am having to relate the book to sociology. I can relate it to a specific matter or just the course study in general. If anyone has any information on this matter please feel free to help me out.

Wait, you want us to do your sociology homework? Fat chance!!

(much later), And so the sociology experiment, testing whether strangers freely give "gift-love", proves conclusive... Flipping Mackerel (talk) 00:55, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness." - C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain 174.109.204.78 (talk) 13:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Audio Recording of the book?[edit]

I was under the impression that The Four Loves was originally a series of radio presentations, which were then transcribed into book form, not the other way around, as is currently indicated by the article. -- 128.104.117.179 20:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's Mere Christianity. The audio recording of this book (done by Lewis himself) came later, and is just an abridged version.

The first person was right. It was originally a radio series based on ten pamphlets, then a audio cassette came out, then the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.247.101.91 (talk) 14:04, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

error[edit]

In the listing of C. S. Lewis works, the book "Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer," appears twice: once under fiction, which is incorrect, and later under non-fiction, which is correct.

Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse donaldgreybarnhouse@verizon.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.201.144.118 (talk) 04:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, to be fair, it's not really non-fiction, since Lewis uses the literary device of fictitious letters. In other words, there was no real Malcom with whom Lewis had corresponded about prayer (or anything else). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.106.71 (talk) 17:13, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Caritas?[edit]

The use of "caritas" as a header made no sense, so I changed it to "charity". Lewis uses "charity" throughout The Four Loves and never uses the Latin term "caritas" (that I can find). Ztolstoy (talk) 04:55, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

English Eros[edit]

What would the modern equivilent for this term be? The others were in the description so I put them in like they were already for friendship. If it's not sexuality... would 'Romance' be an approximation? Nym (talk) 17:17, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis equates it to "being in love" 86.168.31.68 (talk) 13:26, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the gospel of john[edit]

In the gospel of John on Christmas eve, love(agape) and friendship (fileo) are referred to. Guess it means to think of loved ones and friends on December 24th. Scottbitsuie (talk) 19:00, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

set of radio talks[edit]

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

Are there recordings of these radio talks? Or transcripts? LichCake (talk) 06:20, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]