The discussion thus far concerned itself with the manner in which Greek philosophy in its major systems interpreted the essence of the philosophical enterprise. This was done without any indication of the intellectual-historical climate in which this essence of philosophy was formulated. The attitude with respect to unity versus multiplicity appears to be derived from the inner logic of the conceptual philosophical activity itself. However, there are grounds for believing that this conception of the nature of philosophy is related to the intellectual-historical climate in which the major philosophical systems of Greece arose. The inner impulse of the Greek religion and Greek myths tended to place a high stress on multiplicity, a multiplicity of the elements of nature and a multiplicity of gods, and a conception of the structure of the world against the background of this manifold. A philosophy that formulated its essence as an attitude with respect to unity was at the same time constrained to argue against an adherence to the manifold and a view of the world based upon multiplicity as an ultimate datum that admits of no other datum of the world.