Round 2: Tossup 4

To supersede this doctrine, the Petelia Tablet and other Hellenic gold leafs known by a German term give instructions such as saying “the Bacchic one has (15[1])released me!” (15[1])This doctrine creates a nine-part hierarchy from winged philosophers down to tyrants in the Allegory of the Chariot from the Phaedrus. Anchises demonstrates this doctrine by showing Aeneas the faces of Romulus (-5[1])and Julius Caesar. According to Diogenes Laërtius, a thinker’s belief in this doctrine led him to stop a (*) dog from being beaten. In the (10[1])Republic, Socrates illustrates this doctrine (10[1])with the myth of Er, who watches people receive lottery tokens and drink from the river Lethe to forget. In Orphic and Pythagorean forms of this doctrine, (10[1])the indestructible psyche undergoes metempsychosis. For 10 points, what cyclic process is governed by karma? ■END■ (10[1])

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