THEO1016 Lecture Notes - The Four Loves
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Natural loves the natural loves are not self-sufficient. Any relationship takes work, and especially as it lasts. Love, at first, is easy because both partners are wrapped up in it, almost blinded by it. But as love persists you begin to see and experience each other"s faults and must work to deal with the problems within the partnership: one does not need to believe in god to agree because he describes. St. augustine: his argument says that love can bring misery, specifically through death of a partner, and one should not subject themselves to love knowing what it will lead to unless his or her beloved will not die. He says this feeling of desolation which comes from a lost love comes from giving ones heart to anything but god: lewis does not agree, it does not appeal to his conscience. He says it is shallow to love based on security.
