Universität Wien

180036 SE Indian Philosophy (2020S)

Sri Aurbindo Ghose

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Weekly on Tuesdays from 11:30 to 13:00 you will have the possibility to join a Zoom-videoconference. Arno Böhler will send all members of the seminar an invitation to the Zoom-Meeting ahead in time.

  • Tuesday 10.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 17.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 24.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 31.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 21.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 28.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 05.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 12.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 19.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 26.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 09.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 16.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 23.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 30.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this Seminar, we will read "The Secret of the Veda" by Sri Aurobindo Ghose, in which he rereads the , the oldest text of the Veda, the Ridveda, resisting colonialistic or brahmanic-orthodox interpretations. We will touch on the questions currently politically controversial in India. For example, the question "Who is a Hindu?". A question, which is aswered in a spiritual manner by Aurobindo, while Vinayak Demodar Savarkar in his legendary text "Hindutva (Who is a Hindu?)" answers it in a national-territorial way, therefore politizing it.

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral presentation (15 minutes) + written thesis (10 pages in total). Deadline for the written thesis is the 20th of September 2020. The third criterion for the evaluation is participation in the seminar.
Due to e-learning following criteria for the evaluation of your seminar contribution have changed:
1) Please send an audiofile of your oral presentation beforehond to the seminar leader Arno Böhler. This audiofile will be treated analog to the "written thesis" part. It replaced the "written thesis". All other parts concerning the evaluation of your course particiation remain the same: "Oral presentation" in a Zoom-Meeting and "
Alle anderen Teilleistung bleiben wie geplant bestehen: 'Mündliche Präsentation' im Zuge eines Zoom-Meetings sowie 'Mitarbeit' während der Zoom-Meetings.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

minimum requirement for successful completion of the seminar is at least 50 percent on the total achivement
Attendance is compulsory, therefore it is only allowed to miss at most two sessions without exuse

Examination topics

All particants have to present one of the texts made available on Moodle. The presentation should communicate the central thoughts of the text to the participants, questions them critically and contextualize it historically. The text of the presentations are then turned into 10 page seminar thesis, which are then send to the lecturer as a pdf. (NAME_SE_INDISCHEPHILO.pdf)

Reading list

Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1956): The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondicherry 2015 (8. Edition).
Vinayak Damodar Savarka (1923): Essentials Of Hindutva, https://archive.org/details/hindutva-vinayak-damodar-savarkar-pdf/page/n13/mode/2up
Weitere Literatur wird auf Moodle bereitgestellt

Association in the course directory

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