ABSTRACT
Love of the nearest went counter to self-love; it was a tremendous extension of the sphere of life, efficiency, evaluation, participation. The antinomy shows itself in this, that love of the remotest at first really requires an overcoming of one's commitment to the nearest. It is the same overcoming which generally inheres in the nature of a future intention. All ethically active life is prospective, it is a living in the future and for the future. This inheres in the nature of activity. Only the future belongs to striving. The will has no power over what has already transpired, once it exists. In so far as such a survey concerns his outward career, every normal man attains it at least in certain moments. An attachment of love to the remote is demanded. With love of the remotest the reverse is true.
