transmigration

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The thought behind Pythagoras' transmigration view is that humans and animals are alike.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

This informs the belief that an individual will bear a future burden for harms committed in the present through the process of samsara, or transmigration and rebirth of the soul.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Knausgaard chews on notions of faith, free will, the transmigration of souls, the nature of angels, on meaning and nothingness in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Rilke’s poetry.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021

“Infinite” may last a finite 106 minutes, but transmigration of souls or no transmigration of souls, life is too short.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2021

Of the Institutions of the Indians—the Brahminical caste, and the hereditary priesthood.—Of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, considered as the basis of Indian life, and of Indian philosophy.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich