Scheler's phenomenological philosophy tells us that love is an irreducible phenomenon that cannot be identified with striving, desiring, longing. Love is primarily a spiritual act that is a movement. „Love is that movement wherein every concrete individual object that possesses value achieves the highest value compatible with its nature and ideal vocation; or wherein it attains the ideal state of value intrinsic to its nature”(Sympathy, p. 161)

Scheler's phenomenological philosophy tells us that love is an irreducible phenomenon that cannot be identified with striving, desiring, longing. Love is primarily a spiritual act that is a movement. „Love is that movement wherein every concrete individual object that possesses value achieves the highest value compatible with its nature and ideal vocation; or wherein it attains the ideal state of value intrinsic to its nature”

(Sympathy, p. 161)