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    Did Plato advocate Reincarnation?

    Question #124955. Asked by houston1127. (Feb 01 12 10:02 PM)


    Emma058

    		"In Phaedo, Plato makes his teacher Socrates, prior to his death, state; "I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, and that the living spring from the dead." However Xenophon does not mention Socrates as believing in reincarnation and Plato may have systematised Socrates' thought with concepts he took directly from Pythagoreanism or Orphism."http://www.ask.com/wiki/Reincarnation

    Feb 01 12, 10:45 PM
    tazman6619

    		This site provides arguments both for and against Plato advocating reincarnation along with a historical context.

    http://www.john-uebersax.com/plato/plato4.htm



    Feb 02 12, 12:29 PM

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