The chapter “Friendship” chapter of C.S. Lewis’ “The Four Loves” offered surprising criteria for a love to be classified as a friendship. Lewis alleges that only love founded on a common interest, rather than a basis of interest in the other person. What struck me as we were discussing this apparent aberration in Lewis’ argument in class was that, perhaps, he thought this sort of third-party friendship to be more spiritual because it denies us the opportunity to be flattered by another’s’ interest, and therefore to be further entangled with the enchantments of self. Perhaps Lewis feels that we aren’t supposed to find “our other self,” as Prof. Jensen said. Lewis states: “Affection and Eros were too obviously shared with brutes, you could feel these tugging at your guts and fluttering in your diaphragm. But in friendship- in that luminous, tranquil, rational world of relationships freely chosen-you got away from all that” (59). Perhaps Lewis is saying that by placing the emphasis of our friendships on a commonality rather than attraction to one another’s personality we are edifying and elevating one another in the spirit. Maybe Lewis’ theory is that if we separate ourselves from this earthy love, this interest in the possibly finite components of our persons, compel us towards a deeper knowledge of God’s love.