Christianity has begun to penetrate the Greco-Roman world as something else, something completely different from Epicurean, Stoic, or Neoplatonic philosophy.
Plato argued that philosophers should strive to contemplate and understand these perfect Forms so that they may better navigate our misleading reality.
But the most remarkable philosophic trend in the late Hellenistic period was first and foremost inspired by Plato's philosophy. We therefore call it Neoplatonism.
Let me try to reframe this critique in the following way, which is the reason that the philosophical life is the better form of sex for Plato has to do with his idea of the forms, right?