 The extent to which we are motivated by a sense of solidarity is a function of the sphere of commonality of objective spirit that we grow up in. Our anthropological sense of solidarity and its fellow-feeling provides a more positive incentive for sociability than Hume’s sympathy and Schopenhauer’s compassion. But even the fellowship of solidarity is a mere natural incentive which does not become ethical until it is transformed into a more active or participatory incentive of benevolence (1890b/GS.X, 70).