I think loving humanity for struggling for existence is pretty natural. Gilman-Opalsky talks about that in his analysis of the work of Weil and Levinas, and follows it up with a chapter about Plato's Symposium in which he proposes the ancient Greek "soulmate" concept could be expanded to apply to entire communities. That is: rather than expecting an individual to complete your 'soul' as in the traditional metaphor, it is the entire community which you help complete and which simultaneously completes you.
As for loving individuals, this sort of generalized love of humanity can be split up into sort of 'slices' of 'attention' (since attention is the limiting resource here). And you can synthesize that love with romance or limerance or cathexis if it feels right for that relationship.
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I think loving humanity for struggling for existence is pretty natural. Gilman-Opalsky talks about that in his analysis of the work of Weil and Levinas, and follows it up with a chapter about Plato's Symposium in which he proposes the ancient Greek "soulmate" concept could be expanded to apply to entire communities. That is: rather than expecting an individual to complete your 'soul' as in the traditional metaphor, it is the entire community which you help complete and which simultaneously completes you.
As for loving individuals, this sort of generalized love of humanity can be split up into sort of 'slices' of 'attention' (since attention is the limiting resource here). And you can synthesize that love with romance or limerance or cathexis if it feels right for that relationship.