An idea from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

You can’t order someone to feel love. So a command to love even your enemy must ask for something you can choose. It asks you to do them good out of duty, even when you dislike them. That love sits in the will, not in the feelings.

From Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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