ABSTRACT
It is impossible, however, both to criticize X and to praise something as X unless X is used in two di erent senses. e term “philosophy” can indeed be understood either as “love of knowledge, pursuit
of truth” or “the pursuit of philosophy in the Graeco-Roman, pagan world”. It is perfectly conceivable that one rejects philosophy in the latter sense, which I call “Hellenic philosophy”, while approving of philosophy in the former. In such a case one rejects as unsatisfactory a certain tradition of philosophy or a certain tradition of pursuing the truth, while a% rming the task of pursuing the truth in some other way.
