The Weaknesses Of Reincarnation

Meno’s paradox states that is impossible to gain new knowledge using inquiry. In this essay I will explain Meno’s paradox, and then I will analyse ‘the theory of recollection’, the solution to it given by Plato.

After watching the movie “Unmistaken Child”, we can see the idea of people being reincarnated after they die. This process claims that after a person dies they begin a new life through a different physical body but hold their same ideas from their previously lives. It was believed to be an involuntary process that people would experience and only those who reached enlightenment could choose their form in the next life. The movie is based around one of the most revered Tibetan masters name Geshe Lama Konchog who passes away. Before he does his disciple Tenzin Zopa request that he come back to him in this world and he told him that it would depend on their prayers. The funeral of his master was a fire sacrifice. His body was set on fire and prayers were recited to

Hinduism is faced with a revolving wheel of life, death and rebirth called Samsara better known as reincarnation. They believe this life cycle is a direct relation to a person’s karma of deeds done. Karma “determines the kind of body, whether human, animal, or insect, into which he or she will be reincarnated in the next

Plato says “Sleep comes after being awake and being awake comes after sleep. Likewise just as death comes from life so must death return to life again.”(Tolstoy) Plato is explaining that life is like a rotating wheel with only two parts. You will live and then you will die but then there has to be something after that which is life again and the circle restarts, and this process never stops. Plato says “They have stayed for certain appointed periods, some longer, some shorter, they are sent forth again into the generation of living things.” “The inhabitants of the upper realms live there longer than those of the lower realms and without the pains, but they are only more like the Immortals, not actually immortal themselves. When they have to fall down, they are forced to fall back again and are assigned to an appropriate status, depending on their nature and according to their deeds” (hellenismo). It may take years for a person to be reincarnated. And who or what you are reincarnated into depends on the nature of the spirit and what you need to do in your next life. Plato says it’s not by chance you get a certain body or born into a certain family it’s for a reason... “ Famous philosophers socrates and pythagoras also believe what plato believed. They believe reincarnation is real. In Hinduism, it is believed that an enduring soul survives after death, spends a variable amount of time in another realm, and then becomes associated with a new body.”. “Hinduism includes the concept of karma, the idea that the conditions into which one is born are determined by one's conduct in various previous lives”. Buddhists believe also that once some has dies they reincarnate but they believe that who you reincarnate to is based on your karma except for the Dalai Lama. They believe that the Dalai Lama doesn’t get karma because of their “devotion to complete compassion for all sentient beings”

you die you will be reborn into another body which brings out the belief of Reincarnation) or

The author analyses reincarnation and what it means to the spirits that have just died an experience purgatory against the spirit that has come to terms with death and lived in purgatory. It is an interesting concept to reflect as Adam who has been there a while sees that not everyone gets a great reincarnation, as the human on earth have destroyed what is left.

Although these cases are common in the east and among native populations, the west also has its share of similar experiences. The Abrahamic religions that dominate the west tend not to accept reincarnation, but rather in “afterlives” where the soul goes to live eternally after leaving the body. Additionally, some religions do not have any belief in a soul or consciousness at all, concluding instead that whatever we are dies along with the physical body. Regardless, past life accounts happen even in these populations. Research done in European societies found that the essential features of these cases are very similar to the ones found in Asia, Africa, and among some Native American groups. Some of these similarities include very young age,

How would it feel to know that after you died, you would be reborn into a new body? That the deciding factor in what you would become was how you lived your life? Beliefs like these have existed for at least 3,000 years. Originating and commonly practiced in Western countries, this is called reincarnation. To know that you have lived many lives before this one and that there are many more to come is a very attractive perspective from which to judge the meaning of life. It can be a great comfort for those who seek liberation on the exclusive basis of their inner resources. While the general concept is present in a number of religions, there are also significant differences between the various belief

In the Phaedo, Socrates proposes that the soul is immortal. Despite being a seemingly counterintuitive understanding, Socrates offers arguments for the soul’s immortality and expresses his view between the soul, or mind, and the body. Socrates practices reasoning to establish his philosophy on the concept of the soul and all that it necessitates. He rationalizes four theories of the immortality of the soul. The four arguments he establishes are; the opposites argument, also referred to as the cyclical argument, this theory indicates that there is a continuous cycle of life and death, and tries to explain that all forms obtained are eternal and fixed. The second argument is the theory of recollection; this concept suggests that all learning entails remembering knowledge that was already known. The third theory is the argument from affinity; this argument demonstrates that the soul most resembles all of that which is indistinguishable and everlasting and the body echoes that which is perceptible and finite. And though the body may be understood to exist after demise in the form of a corpse by reason of the body’s impermanence, the soul being divine in sequence will outlast the body. The concluding argument is the argument from form of life, this final argument describes that all things participate in the forms. The argument entails that the soul participates in the form of life, so

As a means for solving the paradox of inquiry, Socrates proposes the theory of recollection. The basic premise of this theory holds that “…[the soul] can recollect the things it knew before…what we call learning is recollection” (Plato). This theory works around the paradox by showing that a person can already implicitly know x without being able to explicitly express x. This leaves no room for inquiry in the process of changing implicit knowledge

The four arguments that are put forward are; the inverse contention or the cyclical contention, this hypothesis tries to clarify that the structures we have are unceasing and can 't change and the spirit can never die and it generally brings life. The body is accepted to be mortal and needs to experience the physical demise however the spirit is not crushed simultaneously. Plato tries to make clear of the contention by looking at cold and fire. The second argument is otherwise called the theory of recollection, this hypothesis tries to clarify that human have some knowledge that is non exact sample of this knowledge is the knowledge during childbirth. This is utilized to show or suggest that possibly at one time that the soul existed before conception for it to have that information. The thought that we have dependably had epistemic accessibility. All intellect that we procured in our current lives will be overlooked when we enter the Form of Transcendence. When we are reborn into our new bodies we are to recall all the data from the past since our souls never passed on. The third argument is otherwise called the affinity argument, this theory tries to clarify that what is everlasting and invulnerable things are altogether different from what is obvious and mortal. Our soul is godlike and our body is mortal and hence when our bodies pass on, our soul will even now keep on living. The fourth argument of the Phaedo is the argument from the type of life and it clarifies that,

the meaning of Reincarnation. Reincarnation means the rebirth of a new body. It is determined

that if X can be without Y then X and Y are distinct. This view that a

Through many religious teachings you will hear that reincarnation is a vicious endless cycle of

It is believed that resurrection does not happen all at one time. Instead, it happens many more times as part of a process for mending the world. This is not necessarily the belief of all people in the religion. Like other ideas, there are even differences in beliefs of reincarnation itself. Some say that it would likely happen to anyone on a routine basis and all that you would need to do is live a good life. In other cases, it seems like the beginning of a modern ghost story. It’s believed that reincarnation would only take place if the soul had some sort of unfinished business to attend to. I am not sure what sort of unfinished business that these souls would have. My only idea, would be some sort of closure needed from a living loved one. Another reason that I do not believe in reincarnation is that animals would act very different if they were being possessed by the souls of those that have already passed away. Plants would not be likely recipients of reincarnated souls in my opinion, especially if they are only being reincarnated for unfinished