The main focus in this course is to prepare to student to reading and understanding the central philosophical texts, and to critically assess contemporary popular source-texts on yoga philosophy.
The main focus in this course is to prepare to student to reading and understanding the central philosophical texts, and to critically assess contemporary popular source-texts on yoga philosophy.
This course takes a look at the most prominent philosophical texts on yoga. Despite their going back in time around two millenia, the central ideas of Bhagavad-gita and Yoga-sutra continue to be studied by yoga-practitioners-teachers today. These texts have a central position in the classic Vedic philosophy. Both are related to their respective philosophical schools of Vedanta (Bhagavad-gita) and Sankhya-Yoga (Yoga-sutra). To understand these texts, it is necessary to explore some of the central ideas of the upanishads, Sankhya, and Vedanta as well.
For more information, please see the Study Guide.
To complete the course, the student needs to:
General skills:
Analytical skills
Theoretical knowledge of the own field
Ability to write academic texts
Finding information
Ability to solve problems
Social skills when involved in group assignments
Oral and written presentations
Basic competences in verbal and written expression and presentation, the ability to study independently printed an online sources, and the ability to seek digital information relevant to the topics at hand.
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