The Lengths Friendships Go Cicero gossip into great detail on the value of friendship in “Laelius: On Friendship” and it is evident that friendship should be valued among all things in life. But when it comes to how much a friend means to you, how far would you go for such a friend. Morals come into question on whether or not such a friend should ask you to commit extremities.
Cicero begins to explain this concept in How far should you go in helping your friends? He gives many examples of how people’s friends have gone for their supposed friends. First what should be addressed is what it means to be a friend. Cicero describes a friend as one who is virtuous, one willing to put the sake you in front of themselves. Friendship is conceived in the absolute willingness to be selfless for another human being. These to share a relationship that should be founded on “a kind of love” (Cicero 10). This love for each other is the very foundation on how each party should be treated. This love is what is taken in regard when asking something from them and it is important to remember that these relationships aren’t made with what advantages can be had. Friendship is a pure, kindheartedness shared between two …show more content…
In a situation Cicero was involved in he describes how Scaevola approached him once: “he approached me once (when I was in a meeting with the consuls Laenatus and Rupilius) to ask me if I would forgive him, because he thought so highly of Tiberius Gracchus that he would do anything he wanted him to do.” The act of idolizing Tiberius literally consumed Scaevola. When asked by Cicero if he would “set fire to the Capitol” Scaevola confirmed that he would do so. Baffled, Cicero continues to explain that the act of friendship should never cloud the judgement between what is sinful and what isn’t: “there is still no excuse for sin if you sin for the sake of a
Cicero begins to explain this concept in How far should you go in helping your friends? He gives many examples of how people’s friends have gone for their supposed friends. First what should be addressed is what it means to be a friend. Cicero describes a friend as one who is virtuous, one willing to put the sake you in front of themselves. Friendship is conceived in the absolute willingness to be selfless for another human being. These to share a relationship that should be founded on “a kind of love” (Cicero 10). This love for each other is the very foundation on how each party should be treated. This love is what is taken in regard when asking something from them and it is important to remember that these relationships aren’t made with what advantages can be had. Friendship is a pure, kindheartedness shared between two …show more content…
In a situation Cicero was involved in he describes how Scaevola approached him once: “he approached me once (when I was in a meeting with the consuls Laenatus and Rupilius) to ask me if I would forgive him, because he thought so highly of Tiberius Gracchus that he would do anything he wanted him to do.” The act of idolizing Tiberius literally consumed Scaevola. When asked by Cicero if he would “set fire to the Capitol” Scaevola confirmed that he would do so. Baffled, Cicero continues to explain that the act of friendship should never cloud the judgement between what is sinful and what isn’t: “there is still no excuse for sin if you sin for the sake of a