WI: Platonists forgotten, Peripatetics triumphant?

Alkahest

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As a sort of continuation of this thread, I present the following scenario: What if Platonism had fallen into obscurity in the second or third century AD? What if it had never evolved into the Neoplatonism of Plotinus? What if instead the followers of Aristotle, the Peripatetics, had managed to become the most influential philosophers of the Roman Empire?

More specifically:
1) What would happen to Christianity? Would it still manage to dominate the region, or would it go the same way as the worship of Isis or Mithras went IOTL?
2) What of the belief in an immortal soul? Would a more Aristotelian view of the soul as a mortal thing be more accepted?
3) How would science develop in a world even more in love with Aristotle than OTL?
4) How would ethics develop in such a world?
5) How would Aristotelian ideas evolve in a world without Neoplatonism?
6) What would be the future of the Roman Empire? Would it at all be affected by this change in philosophical thought?
 
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