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The word means "snuffed out" in the way a fire is snuffed out or extinguished. At this point, the self no longer exists. It is not folded into a higher reality nor it is transported to a land of bliss, it simply ceases to exist. This is the state that the Buddha passed into at his death. Buddhism centrally concerns the problem of the eternal birth and rebirth of the human soul (reincarnation). Buddhism in its original form does not posit some transcendent alternative as a goal. In fact, Buddhism in its original form held that the soul actually died when the body died.

A large part of the program prescribed by Buddha involved selflessness in the world. Buddhism represents one of the most humane and advanced moral systems in the ancient world. The first steps on the road to Nirvana were to focus one's actions on doing good to others. In this way one could lose the illusion that one is a unique self. The Buddhist scriptures disapprove of violence, meat eating, animal sacrifice, and war. Buddha enjoined on his followers four moral imperatives: friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, the "Four Cardinal Virtues."

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From the Socratic dialogues up to and including Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's ultimate collaboration, philosophy has been intertwined with friendship, sharing, and equality, which also cover in the four cardinal virtues of Buddhism. The questions Sophie asks of the world are common to the Western philosophical tradition: issues of identity, the purpose of existence and the rules of living. This Western philosophical tradition is also cover in the Siddhartha teachings of how life should be lived and exercises that should be adopted. In contrast to Siddhartha philosophy, Sophie's World has an inordinate time spends talking about women, women's issues and women's place in philosophy.
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Gaarder, Jostein. "Review of Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder (Richard Gehr)." Sophie's

World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy. 1994. Levity.com. 10 July 2005 http://www.levity.com/rubric/sophie.html.

Siddhartha Gatama." Wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan.edu. 10 July 2005 http://www.wesleyan.edu/phil/moralpsych/students/iorozco/.

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Gaarder, Jostein. "Review of Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder (Richard Gehr)." Sophie's

World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy. 1994. Levity.com. 10 July 2005 http://www.levity.com/rubric/sophie.html.

Siddhartha Gatama." Wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan.edu. 10 July 2005 http://www.wesleyan.edu/phil/moralpsych/students/iorozco/.
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