Love In C. S. Lewis The Four Loves

Love is arguably one of the most difficult abstractions to define. Most people know what it is, but it has different meanings for everyone. Love is one of the most covered topics in music, film, and literature, because of its inherent passion and complexity. C. S. Lewis, in The Four Loves, separates love into four distinct categories which emphasize its vast and multifaceted properties. Lewis’s classifications affirm that the love between a mother and her son differs from that between romantic partners. In his philosophical spectacle, Ethics for the New Millennium, the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso argues the human nature of love and its tendency to prioritize the wellbeing of others over that of oneself. With the intricacy of love established, it must then be considered whether or not such a concept can be applied to technological entities. Futurist Ray

The first type, Storge, is defined as “affection, especially of parents to offspring; but also of offspring to parents” (Lewis 53). This kind of affectionate love comes naturally, and Lewis deduces that it is the most humble of loves. It is not possible for computers to experience Storge with their human owners, because they are not genealogically affiliated with them. It is, however, possible for sentient technological devices that were produced together to share a distorted familial bond, if only at the primal level. The next classification of love is Philia, or friendship, which, conversely to Storge, is viewed as unnatural. This is due to friendship being a deliberate act in that one must actively seek out his or her companions. If someone decides to purchase a strong artificial intelligence machine, he or she has the opportunity to form a genuine camaraderie with it. Computers that possess full awareness are surely capable of exhibiting Philia love with a human or another device of similar