1. Platonic Reincarnation or the Soul Changes its Garments
Plato was open to the possibility of reincarnation because of his view of the relation of body and soul. He regarded the body to be a shell in which the real person, the soul, is contained; the soul pilots the body around, as a sailor does a ship, or as a driver, a vehicle. On this understanding of the relation of body and soul, conceiving the reincarnation of the soul poses no more problem than envisaging a person getting out of one vehicle and entering another, or a person taking off one garment and putting on another.
There is a certain attractiveness in the position that the body is not the real you, but is only a covering. After all, we consider it an insult if we are 'loved' only for our body, and there is no doubt that the condition of the 'inner person' is more important than bodily health or physical appearance. And it is certainly true that the soul is the mover of the body.
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Plato was correct as was Jesus son of Joseph when he taught reincarnation in
Matthew 11:14-15, John 8:58, etc. Matter-of-fact, Plato was reincarnated about 300 years after his death as Y'shua! Plato was the reincarnation of Pythagoras about 200 years after his death.
