In this essay, the question of how Greek religion and philosophy are different from each other needs to be answered. Thus, we will have to look at how the Greeks viewed the two and see how their thought process was, to correctly answer the question. The Greeks took religion very seriously, and it was very important to everyday life. Religion is based on the belief of something that was usually unseen or unknown and deals with the supernatural, along with deities that had powers beyond that of man. Philosophy deals with things like religion, such as the unknown, but the main difference is those philosophers try to keep in the human realm with human thinking and not relying on gods for answers. During the Archaic Age, there will be several …show more content…
While this is the case, the Greeks believed that the gods were immortal and were human like and would walk among them and that all the gods were under one supreme god. Therefore, the only requirement for the Greeks, when it came to worship the gods, they must assert the exists of the gods, and provide a sacrifice to them, as well as performing rituals (Greek Religion, 2018). Unlike religion, philosophy would take on a different perspective with the Greeks, namely they would question the very existence and power of the gods. According to the philosophers of that time, they would consider that world in which a natural process would control, and the human mind would be able to understand the process. The outcome is the invention of bringing philosophy and science together, which is known as natural philosophy. Basically, the belief was that the universe was formed out of matter, mostly water. Furthermore, the world was considered ever changing world over time, but matter was never changing. These factors contribute to the belief that the universe was controlled by natural laws, which brought into question of how divine intervention could happen in natural events (Matthews, Noble, Platt,