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Summary Of The Four Loves, By C. S. Lewis

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First of all, friendship is created through freedom; the reason for this is because freedom involves the privilege of choice. Due to this privilege, we are able to select what people will be our friends and who will not. Lewis explains that, in friendship, there is no moral requirement to find friends or become someone’s friend. In addition, designating certain people as friends can be potential dangers for both individuals and society as a whole. In addition, one may believe that when one has companions then he or she has friendship. Friendship can result in creating cliques in addition to discrimination against other human beings, which would be considered an immoral act according to virtue. In The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis makes it known that the concept of “companionship” is not considered friendship, but rather is the “matrix of Friendship” (Lewis 94): “Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight …show more content…

S. Lewis make both some important points pertaining to the question over the requirement of friendship; Aristotle provides some good logic for why friendship is needed while C.S. Lewis points out the negative side through his reasoning for why it is not necessary to partake in it. The truth is, there is no write answer in the friendship debate. Rather, it is a choice. A person can be or learn to be virtuous and live a happy life because friends, and a person can also do the same without friends and can gain the same virtue and happiness. Friendship can provide many experiences and teach many lessons to a person, but a life without friendship can provide them same. For in the end, choosing friendship or not depends on the person themselves and themselves alone for they are the ones who are going to decide what is value friendship holds to them and whether it will virtuously benefit themselves as well as others, or

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