Yoga as a step to “authentic vertical tension”

opportunities and reality

Keywords: yoga, modern yoga, the body, yoga epistemology, anthropotechnology, transcendental

Abstract

Modern changes in society, globalization, intercultural contacts have led to unexpected results associated with an understanding of the tradition of yoga. Specialists explore the cultural, psychological, medical and practical, social dimensions of yoga, but the basic meaning of yoga as a search for opportunities for vertical transcendental ascent in a tense and rapid world development pace is leveled. There are a number of studies describing the types of modern yoga, which were formed under the influence of the culture of the west. The authors propose to reconsider the idea of ​​the formation of a western model, based on the thoughts of p. Sloterdijk. The art of education (paideia) was an innovative step of the ancient greeks in order to bring pupils closer to the vertical wall as a symbol, contributing to the implementation of steps to the impossible, to the highest - transcendental. But the demands of life under the conditions of the emergence of an industrial society reduced the tension of this slogan. In the culture of the industrial society, yoga as a traditional sphere of eastern philosophy was transformed into a new phenomenon, the role and significance of which is rather vague in relation to its roots. Most often, yoga is understood as a synthesis of the spiritual and the physical with the dominance of the latter, without taking into account its ideological character, philosophy, experience of the guru, yogin (teacher).

The authors emphasize the similarity of ideas between high demands in search of an exit to the transcendental cultures of the east and the west with examples of parallel reading of the ideas of paideia and traditional yoga. The epistemology of yoga helps to realize the continuity of knowledge and morality. In the conditions of the development of today, when we feel the transition to a new nature of knowledge, where the interest of the body takes place in new contexts, yoga begins a new round of transformations. The phenomenon of the body acquires special significance in the conditions of a departure from the metaphysical tradition of human understanding. The body becomes a metaphor for the designation of everything that goes beyond the physical. If the epoch of modernism has deprived a person of his main discovery - the search for the transcendent, the search for an outlet to him, then in the new round of human development the idea of ​​teaching anthropotechnics can bring yoga closer to its original origins

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Author Biographies

О. О. Dolskaya, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute"

professor of the department of philosophy of the National Technics University “Kharkiv Polytechnic University”

V. V. Lobas, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute"

post-graduate student of the department of philosophy of the National Technics University “Kharkiv Polytechnic University”

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Published
2019-08-28
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How to Cite
DolskayaО. О., & Lobas, V. V. (2019). Yoga as a step to “authentic vertical tension”: opportunities and reality. The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series "Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science", (60), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.26565/2306-6687-2019-60-03