https://forumphilosophicum.ignatianum.edu.pl:443//7209-2801-05.html Philosophy has always been parasitic on other bodies of knowledge, especially religious thought. Greek philosophy in Italy emerged as a purification of Orphic religious traditions. Orphic votaries adopted various disciplines in the attempt to become divine, which led Pythagoras and Empedocles to define philosophy as a path to divinity. According to Plato and Aristotle, the goal of philosophy is to become “as much like a god as is humanly possible.” Classical Greek philosophy is not the study of the divine but the project of becoming divine, a project which it shares with Christianity. Greek philosophy and Christianity have different paths to the divine, but they share a common aspiratio Issues 28/1 – Spring 2023 Articles https://forumphilosophicum.ignatianum.edu.pl:443//7216-doi.html https://forumphilosophicum.ignatianum.edu.pl:443//7272-full-text-at-philosophy-documentation-center.html fr Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:50:18 +0200 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:51:21 +0200 https://forumphilosophicum.ignatianum.edu.pl:443//7209-2801-05.html 0