Man Search for Meaning and the Four Loves

In Man’s Search for Meaning Frankl wrote, “Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.  No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized.”  Victor Frankl is touching on two of Lewis’ loves in his book The Four Loves.  First Frankl is expressing the idea of appreciative love in that one can appreciate the human for who he is.  Frankl ends with a different sort of love, a friendship love.  One which brings out a trait or a truth in the other.  Lewis book on the loves expresses lessons and truths that can be seen throughout different literature.