A few years ago, however, Bart Jan Spruyt brilliantly summed up the various factors opposing Lewis and Eliot in his paper ‘One of the enemy: C. Indeed, very few people are today aware that the Christian apologist and author of The Chronicles of Narnia had found his nemesis in the acclaimed poet and receiver of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tolkien but the nature of his opposition with T.S. Lewis and his friendship with men such as Charles Williams or J.R.R. Much has been written in the last decades about C.S.
To illustrate this, I refer to what is arguably one of the best films to deal with romantic love and friendship, Casablanca. Friendship, I argue, though certainly a form of love, cannot be accommodated in Honneth’s model. Lewis has drawn attention to some of these differences and in this essay I focus on his discussion of the specific contrast between romantic love and friendship. There are profound differences between various kinds of love which his account tends to ignore. Honneth’s account, however, is not unproblematic. Hence his definition of love as the affectional expression of care retained over distance.
One such attempt was made not so long ago by the philosopher and sociologist Axel Honneth who argues that every love relationship between people is the result of an interactional process by which the persons involved detach themselves from an initial state of oneness in such a way that, in the end, they learn to accept and care for each other as independent persons. What is love? Many theorists have tried to answer this question.
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