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On the Transmigration of Souls: Reincarnation Into Animal Bodies in Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plato

Osborne, Catherine·2007·Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282067.003.0003
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Abstract This chapter considers what is involved in the claim that some species are ‘similar to’ or ‘different from’ ourselves, and what role such claims play in moral discourse. Examples are taken from the reincarnation theories of Pythagoreans, Empedocles, and Plato, which suggest that animal souls are in some way the same as human souls. Texts discussed include Xenophanes (on Pythagoras and the puppy), Empedocles (on animal sacrifice), and Plato's Timaeus (on the creation of all animals as human animals in the first generation). The chapter argues that moral philosophy is not grounded in biology, but rather that the psychological and biological agenda is motivated by prior commitment to the truth of a certain moral outlook.

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Authors
Osborne, C.
Corresponding author
Osborne, Catherine
Venue
Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2007-01-25
Pages
43-62
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282067.003.0003
OpenAlex
W2501873862
Semantic Scholar
18512b5f332b0ca295e158877960e35d25604b60
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52
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Type
book chapter
Language
en
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closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
Keywords
reincarnation, transmigration of souls, animal soul, Pythagoreans, Empedocles, Plato, Timaeus, Xenophanes, animal sacrifice, moral status of animals, human-animal similarity, animal ethics

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