transmigration

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

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

Pythagoreans also believed in the transmigration of souls, an idea that Plato would adopt.

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

“I’m Thinking,” as it might just as well be called, is another of Kaufman’s patented studies in the transmigration of neurons.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2020

Among the early Christians there was a strong tendency to adopt the theory of transmigration as an explanation of the apparent injustice of the judgments of God.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles