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