A middling kinda love
‘Treat “Love” as a god and you but make it a fiend.’
C.S. Lewis made this comment in a letter to his friend Cecil Harwood. It reflects an idea of Plato, from the Symposium, when the philosopher raises the possibility that Eros is not a divinity but is a go-between entity, a bit like an angel, carrying human beings to higher things.
Lewis was exploring the particular matter of being in love, romantic love if you like. His ideas was that such love isn’t the best kind in life ??" charity is better; but it isn’t the worst either ??" romantic love is better than lust. However, if you make being-in-love the best thing in life, as there is perhaps a tendency to do these days as in his, then it diminishes the best and inflates the worst.
He thought being-in-love was about on a par with friendship...
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