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 released me!” 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. (-5[1])In the Republic, Socrates illustrates this doctrine 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, the indestructible psyche undergoes metempsychosis. (10[1])For 10 points, what cyclic process is governed by karma? ■END■ (10[2])

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