Reflecţii actuale despre prietenie în dialogul ciceronian De amicitia

Cicero chose to define friendship and the use of it from the stoic perspective because it shouldn’t be forgotten that his entire life he was preoccupied by philosophy and it’s popularization in the Roman world. By doing so, he confirmed his orientation for The New Academy, formed for the Greeks by Carneades of Cirene (214-129 b. c.). This philosophical school became the most important for the Romans and Cicero helped with the development of Roman philosophical prose and the enrichment of the Roman and European philosophical vocabulary. The work was created like a discussion that would have taken place in Laelius’s house, in 129 b. c., a few days after Scipio the Younger’s
death. Laelius was a little bit older than Scipio (the one who conquered Cartagena in the third punic war) and he was two times consul. They even kept each other’s company in the Hispanic Campaign, ended with the conquer of Numantia’s settlement in the year of 133 b. c. The two of them had the same philosophical convictions, the same attitude towards politics and also the same cultural ideal. Using a very rich and complex vocabulary, Cicero managed to define amicitia by considering it the most precious thing for the human being.