According to Humberto Maturana our natural state of well-being resides in a harmonic co-existence with others and the other as legitimate others that co-exist with us. Love, with all the diverse ways of expressing affection, is understood by Humberto Maturana a desire to co-exist respecting our difference. He insists that human beings have a biological propensity towards these lovable relations, and that aggressiveness, violence and any other forms of harmful relations are culturally induced and can thus be reverted through reflection including self-reflection. The decision to assume an ethical co-existence depends on each one of us. Maturana insists that his is not a new philosophy since it is not about being but rather about how human beings function. Thus, we are not in the presence of a transcendental truth, a new ideology.
# See also rationality, Strengthening the Nested-I