180032 SE Basic concepts of indian Philosophies (2023W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Hinweis der SPL Philosophie:Das Abgeben von ganz oder teilweise von einem KI-tool (z.B. ChatGPT) verfassten Texten als Leistungsnachweis (z.B. Seminararbeit) ist nur dann erlaubt, wenn dies von der Lehrveranstaltungsleitung ausdrücklich als mögliche Arbeitsweise genehmigt wurde. Auch hierbei müssen direkt oder indirekt zitierte Textstellen wie immer klar mit Quellenangabe ausgewiesen werden.Die Lehrveranstaltungsleitung kann zur Überprüfung der Autorenschaft einer abgegebenen schriftlichen Arbeit ein notenrelevantes Gespräch (Plausibilitätsprüfung) vorsehen, das erfolgreich zu absolvieren ist.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 04.09.2023 09:00 to Su 10.09.2023 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 10.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 17.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 24.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 31.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 07.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 14.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 21.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 28.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 05.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 12.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 09.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 16.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 23.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Tuesday 30.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
All seminar participants must write a text (about 4 pages) and later present it in the seminar on Literature that is provided on Moodle for the course. Your texts should elaborate on the most important ideas of the literature provided on Moodle, question it critically and contextualize it historically. The main issues and questions should then be presented orally in the seminar to stimulate discussion. To enable all seminar participants to prepare you should sent an audio presentation of your text to the course instructor (arno.boehler@univie.ac.at) some days before your presentation in the seminar. Böhler will make the audio files available to all on Moodle. File name: DATE_NAME_SE_Partial deliverables:
1) Oral presentation (15 minutes) + written submission of the presentation (approx. 4 pages).
2) An audio recording of your presentation must be emailed to the instructor a few days before the oral presentation. The audio file is the second part of your seminar performance. (approximately 8-10 minutes)
3) The third criterion for evaluation is active participation in the seminar discussions.
With your registration you automatically agree that your written partial performances will be examined by means of Turnitin.Translated with the help of www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
1) Oral presentation (15 minutes) + written submission of the presentation (approx. 4 pages).
2) An audio recording of your presentation must be emailed to the instructor a few days before the oral presentation. The audio file is the second part of your seminar performance. (approximately 8-10 minutes)
3) The third criterion for evaluation is active participation in the seminar discussions.
With your registration you automatically agree that your written partial performances will be examined by means of Turnitin.Translated with the help of www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The final grade is composed of: 1) oral presentation + written text (40%), 2) audio file (20%), 3) active participation in the group discussions (40%). Grading scale: 0-50% = unsatisfactory. 51-63 points = sufficient. 64-76 points = satisfactory. 77-89 points = good. 80-100 points = very good. To pass the seminar, > 50% must be achieved. In case of an excused absence (max. 2 per semester) you are asked to inform the course instructor in time.
Examination topics
All seminar participants must orally present a text that is provided on Moodle for the course. The presentations should elaborate the most important ideas of the text for all seminar participants, question them critically and contextualize them historically. The orally presented texts should be sent in advance as audio files to the course instructor (arno.boehler@univie.ac.at), who will make them available on Moodle. File name: DATE_NAME_SE_
Reading list
Obligatory Literature:
• Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1999): The Synthesis of Yoga, VOLUMES 23 and 24, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondycherry.
• Böhler, Arno (2022): Sri Aurobindo Ghose: Vom Herz des Integralen Yoga. In: Mascha, Andreas und Seubert, Harald (2022): Integrale Anthropologie. Band 1: Grundlagen. München: Verlag Andreas Mascha, S. 57-89.
• Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
• Skora, Kerry Martin (2007): The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense Energies: Body and Touch in Abhinavagupta's Trika. In: Numen , 2007, Vol. 54, No. 4, Religion through the Senses (2007), Leiden/ Bosten: Brill. pp. 420-458.
• Bäumer, Bettina (2016): Die flüssige Natur ästhetischer Erfahrung. Polylog 35, pp. 89–95.Non-Obligatory Literature (provided on Moodle, selection)
• Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway - Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
• Muller-Ortega, Paul Eduardo (1989): The Triadic Heart of Siva. Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
• White, David Gordon (1991): Tantra in Practice. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• White, David Gordon (2009): Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy. Paragrana 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/para.2009.0005Non-Obligatory Literature (recommended for further profound studies)
• Gonda, Jan (1977): A History of Indian Literature. Vol. 2, fasc. 1, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
• Bryant, Edwin F. (2009): The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. New York: North Point Press.
• Banerji, Debashish, (ed.) (2020): Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics & Transformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-021-00091-5
• Maas, Philipp (2006): “Samādhipāda: Das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra zum ersten Mal kritisch ediert. = The First Chapter of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra for the First Time Critically Edited. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
• Maharaj, Ayon (2018): Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Heeds, Peter (2006): Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library.
• White, David Gordon (2014): The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books, Band 43). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Wolfers, Alex (2017): The Making of an Avatar: Reading Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950). Religions of South Asia 11, nos 2-3. pp. 274 -341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.37030
• White, David Gordon (2000): Tantra in Practice: mapping a Tradition. In: ders. (Hg.): Tantra in Practice. Princeton University Press: Princeton / Oxford.
• Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1999): The Synthesis of Yoga, VOLUMES 23 and 24, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondycherry.
• Böhler, Arno (2022): Sri Aurobindo Ghose: Vom Herz des Integralen Yoga. In: Mascha, Andreas und Seubert, Harald (2022): Integrale Anthropologie. Band 1: Grundlagen. München: Verlag Andreas Mascha, S. 57-89.
• Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
• Skora, Kerry Martin (2007): The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense Energies: Body and Touch in Abhinavagupta's Trika. In: Numen , 2007, Vol. 54, No. 4, Religion through the Senses (2007), Leiden/ Bosten: Brill. pp. 420-458.
• Bäumer, Bettina (2016): Die flüssige Natur ästhetischer Erfahrung. Polylog 35, pp. 89–95.Non-Obligatory Literature (provided on Moodle, selection)
• Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway - Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
• Muller-Ortega, Paul Eduardo (1989): The Triadic Heart of Siva. Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
• White, David Gordon (1991): Tantra in Practice. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• White, David Gordon (2009): Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy. Paragrana 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/para.2009.0005Non-Obligatory Literature (recommended for further profound studies)
• Gonda, Jan (1977): A History of Indian Literature. Vol. 2, fasc. 1, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
• Bryant, Edwin F. (2009): The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. New York: North Point Press.
• Banerji, Debashish, (ed.) (2020): Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics & Transformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-021-00091-5
• Maas, Philipp (2006): “Samādhipāda: Das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra zum ersten Mal kritisch ediert. = The First Chapter of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra for the First Time Critically Edited. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
• Maharaj, Ayon (2018): Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Heeds, Peter (2006): Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library.
• White, David Gordon (2014): The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books, Band 43). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Wolfers, Alex (2017): The Making of an Avatar: Reading Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950). Religions of South Asia 11, nos 2-3. pp. 274 -341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.37030
• White, David Gordon (2000): Tantra in Practice: mapping a Tradition. In: ders. (Hg.): Tantra in Practice. Princeton University Press: Princeton / Oxford.
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Last modified: Su 08.10.2023 11:27
The purpose of this seminar consists in introducing you to essential basic concepts of Indian philosophy.
This semester the focus of our analysis is the doctrine of the five body-sheats (pañcakośāḥ). A doctrine that runs across a whole range of Indian traditions of thought. We find the doctrine of the 5 body-sheats already in the Upanishads, but also in many Tantric traditions, in Shaktism and in a number of Buddhist schools.
1. the first sheat in which every body is wrapped is the physical space: Annamayakośa.
2. the second sheat in which every body is enveloped is the vital space: Prāṇamayakośa.
3. the third sheat in which every body is enveloped is the mental space: Manomayakośa.
4. the fourth sheat in which each body is enveloped is the cognition space (gnosis): Vijñānamayakośa
5. the fifth sheat in which every body is enveloped is the space of bliss: Ānandamayakośa.Fundamental philosophical questions arise from this doctrine:
- How do these teachings understand space if all five sheaths are thought of as distinct spatial layers (spheres)? Is space layered? What does this mean?
- How do bodies constitute (maya) themselves from these spatial sheaths? What does it mean that bodies come into being by contracting space? Namely by incorporating it and thereby revealing it bodily?
- The unveiling of the space and its five layers takes place gradually step by step; that is, chronologically: First, the physical space unfolds, then the vital, then the mental, then the gnostic space, and finally, the space of bliss. How is the relationship between space and time conceived in these teachings?
- The space of delight is indeed the highest and first principle, but it is revealed last in the course of the evolutionary unfolding of time in one's own body an as one's own body. What does the evolutionary unfolding of principles in one's own body mean here?
- How is the descent (descent) of the principles versus the evolutionary ascent of the bodies, which both go hand in hand, to be thought?Questions that will give us a lot to think about in the course of the semester.Translated with the help of www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)