Philo represents the apex of Jewish-Hellenistic syncretism. His work attempts to combine Plato and Moses into one philosophical system. Philo bases his doctrines on the Hebrew Bible, which he considers the source and standard not only of religious truth but of all truth. Philo's allegorical interpretation of scripture allows him to grapple with morally disturbing events and impose a cohesive explanation of stories. Specifically, Philo interprets the characters of the Bible as aspects of the human being, and the stories of the Bible as episodes from universal human experience. For example, Adam represents the mind and Eve the senses. Noah represents tranquility, a stage of "relative" (incomplete but progressing) righteousness. According to Josephus, Philo was largely inspired in this by Aristobulus of Alexandria and the Alexandrian school.