Humans must have the ability to consider, understand, question, and reflect what is being a human though our own personal morals. Friendship happens when two moral and good people have a shared activity, where they both contribute in the friendship, thus learning about each other. For Aristotle, being moral in life pertains to human happiness. For Cicero, friendship is central to our lives and involves goodwill. Universal rules and internal morality of the friendship is explored on its own and through the ideas in the works of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Cicero’s On Friendship (De Amitcitia). Through the history of philosophy, it was specified that morality was what rational. The human was seen as a rational and social creature that
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For there is nothing so worthy of love as virtue, nothing that offers stronger incentive to affection” (Cicero 90). In a real friendship it is difficult if one person is focused on the idea of this moral perfection, because normal human beings are not perfect. An important factor in being a moral person is luck because life is extremely tenuous and aspects such as wisdom come from the outside world that can break down ideal factors in friendships. This is due to that in friendship there is a limit to how many immoralities occur, because there is a limit to what can be asked for by an honorable friend. Sometimes we take criticism from our friends the wrong way, truth in friendships are essential and humans should take into account what their friends say. Cicero claims that one should not abandon old friends, even if a friend does not always tell the truth. Friendship is something that happens and develops on it’s own. The importance in morality of friendship if how a person develops within themselves. A person expects a friend to grow, care and love overtime within the friendship. Both Aristotle and Cicero believed in the classical concept of friendship, whereas friendship occurs when two virtuous and moral people similar or equal in how they contribute happiness to their lives. Universal rules and internal morality of the friendship is explored on its own and through the ideas in the works of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Cicero’s On Friendship (De
For there is nothing so worthy of love as virtue, nothing that offers stronger incentive to affection” (Cicero 90). In a real friendship it is difficult if one person is focused on the idea of this moral perfection, because normal human beings are not perfect. An important factor in being a moral person is luck because life is extremely tenuous and aspects such as wisdom come from the outside world that can break down ideal factors in friendships. This is due to that in friendship there is a limit to how many immoralities occur, because there is a limit to what can be asked for by an honorable friend. Sometimes we take criticism from our friends the wrong way, truth in friendships are essential and humans should take into account what their friends say. Cicero claims that one should not abandon old friends, even if a friend does not always tell the truth. Friendship is something that happens and develops on it’s own. The importance in morality of friendship if how a person develops within themselves. A person expects a friend to grow, care and love overtime within the friendship. Both Aristotle and Cicero believed in the classical concept of friendship, whereas friendship occurs when two virtuous and moral people similar or equal in how they contribute happiness to their lives. Universal rules and internal morality of the friendship is explored on its own and through the ideas in the works of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Cicero’s On Friendship (De