 Collective Acts. Paradigmatic cases of empathy or of social acts exemplify an I-Thou intentional relation where an I is directed towards the other as a you. This relation should be distinguished from the collective relation in which you and I share an experience as ours. Interestingly, the phenomenological investigation into experiential sharing is part and parcel of a larger investigation into various forms of groups. The two topics are related because phenomenologists argue that different kinds of groups correlate with different kinds of social attitudes.