ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the love in the sense of the Greek agape, often translated as love, affection, or charity. It analyzes the effects of love within the society understood as an intersubjective whole. The chapter helps to understand the constitutive process through which love gathers together society as an intersubjective whole and to analyze the way in which singular individuals come together in the whole of the society. From the perspective of social ethics, empathy, as well as time, are the constituents for intersubjective feelings. The bonding force that seems to bring together the volitional bodies of an intersubjective human community is love, that, in the light of James Hart’s and J. Drummond’s discussion, might be defined as exceptional. The chapter focuses on the study of the intersubjective community as it is constituted on a pre-predicative and predicative level.
