| In the later Platonist tradition with the exception of Cicero and Plutarch there is not much evidence that Plato's philosophical use of myths was an accepted practice. |
| Plutarch, as a Platonist, regards soul as responsible for all life and all motion of any kind. |
| Numenius was the last Platonist, as Posidonius was the last Stoic combatant. |
| From a pragmatist point of view, this looks like regression to the Platonist idea that we have responsibilities not only to our fellow humans, but to something non-human. |
| In morals he was a profest Platonist, and in religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian. |
| For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole. |
