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Just out of curiosity, how exactly would philosophy develop in Classical Antiquity if Christianity never came about? For our purposes, let's say Jesus was never born and no equivalent off-shot movement arises that gains the same traction in Judaism.

From my understanding, there was a degree of mutual influence between early Christianity and schools such as (Middle) Platonism (eventually leading to Plotinus and (Neo) Platonism). What concepts would either not arise at all or be very different? Would more Materialist schools such as Stoicism and Epicureanism remain dominant, especially among the Empire's intellectual elite?
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