Svobodna volja v Bhagavadgiti in filozofski tradiciji sankhje ter sodobnih raziskavah v nevroznanosti

Juvan, Neža (author), Petek, Nina (mentor), Markič, Olga (co-mentor)

Kognitivna znanost in nevroznanost v svojih izzivih obravnavata številne filozofske teme, med drugim tudi problem svobodne volje. Bhagavadgita je besedilo hinduizma, ki iz filozofske tradicije sankhje prevzame doktrino, da ni nič neodvisnega od elementarnih sestavin fenomenalne realnosti. Njeno ključno vprašanje je o svobodni volji in determinizmu. Analiza koncepta svobode v Bhagavadgiti ne odgovarja na vprašanje svobodne volje tako kot nevroznanstvene in kognitivne študije, saj predstavlja drugo dimenzijo človeške svobode. Na problem svobodne volje v nevroznanosti in kognitivnih znanostih lahko odgovorimo z mnogimi interpretacijami, pri čemer ni splošno sprejetega stališča. Svoboda, ki nastopa v moderni znanosti, je svoboda znotraj kavzalnosti. Vidik svobode, ki nastopa v Bhagavadgiti in filozofski tradiciji sanhkje, pa je svoboda od navezanosti in znotraj kavzalnosti. Vprašanje svobodne volje vedno mislimo v odnosu do morale in družbe, ker je svobodna volja osnova družbe, morala pa je osnovana na svobodni volji.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Svobodna volja v Bhagavadgiti in filozofski tradiciji sankhje ter sodobnih raziskavah v nevroznanosti
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2023
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152958
• Publication date in RUL: 13.12.2023

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Free will in the Bhagavad-Gītā, the Samkhya philosophical tradition and the contemporary researches of neuroscience

Abstract

The philosophical discourse of the question of free will took place before neuroscience addressed it. In their challenges, cognitive science and neuroscience address many philosophical topics, including the problem of free will. The Bhagavad-Gītā is a text of Hinduism, which adopts the doctrine from the samkhya philosophical tradition, that there is nothing independent from the elementary constituents of phenomenal reality. The Bhagavad-Gītā s key question is about free will and determinism. The Bhagavad-Gītā's analysis of the concept of freedom doesn't answer the question of free will, as neuroscientific and cognitive studies do, because it represents another dimension of human freedom. The problem of free will in neuroscience and cognitive science can be answered, with many interpretations, without a universally accepted position. The freedom that appears in modern science is freedom within causality. The aspect of freedom that appears in the the Bhagavad-Gītā and the samkhya philosophical tradition is freedom from attachment and within causality. We always think of the question of free will concerning morality and society, because free will is the basis of society, and morality is based on free will.

• Keywords: free will, the Bhagavad-Gītā, the Samkhya philosophical tradition, neuroscience, cognitive science, society, morality