If I accord validity to empathy (together with its intentional validity correlates revealed through my coperformance, these essential structures become those of any alter ego I can conceive of; and then there arise the problems of the universal community produced through empathy and of its essential particular forms, the very same forms that turn up in objectivized manner in the natural world view, namely, as family, people, community of peoples, and then as essential structures of human historicity; here, however, in reduced form, they give rise to the essential structures of absolute historicity, namely, those of a transcendental community of subjects as one which, living in community through intentionality in these most general and also in particularized a priori forms, has in itself and continues ever to create the world as intentional validity correlate, in ever new forms and strata of a cultural world.