In other words there must be recognized, as distinct from the category to act for or to act with, the category to exist with and to suffer with which concerns a more profound order of reality. To act for belongs to the realm of mere benevolence. To exist with and to suffer with, to the realm of love in unity.
Love is given to an existing, concrete being.
To exist with is an ethical category. Neither definition exactly corresponds to the sense that the people have of themselves. This ambiguity can give rise to a spurious sentimentalism and romanticism, insofar as the first idea is considered a natural category in society, defined by the compassionate thrill or else by the resentment it awakens. Afterwards many other factors were to intervene. Today we see that this Was an artificial operation, contrary to the nature of things.