| 41. | However the inter-relation of Manicheanism, Orphism, Gnosticism and neo-Platonism is far from clear.
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| 42. | In his early years Augustine was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
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| 43. | However, it has been pointed out that " Stobaeus " occasionally mixed up Platonism with Pythagoreanism.
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| 44. | With the dominance of the Neo-Platonism and Peripatetic School philosophy ( and later Christianity ), Epicureanism declined.
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| 45. | The dominant philosophical traditions of the Greco-Roman world at the time were Stoicism, Platonism, and Epicureanism.
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| 46. | In metaphysics, Adams defends actualism in metaphysics of modality and Platonism about nature of so-called possible worlds.
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| 47. | Platonism had a profound effect on Western thought, and many Platonic notions were adopted by the Western Christian thought.
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| 48. | Metaphysically speaking, Musgrave can be considered a nominalist; he argues for a position he specifically calls Pleonastic Platonism.
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| 49. | Its early date, however, does give it some importance as a source for the history of ancient Platonism.
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| 50. | Thus recent scholarship has transformed Neo-Platonism from an aberration that could be ignored into a phase of Platonism.
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