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PHILOSOPHY SYLLABUS PAPER-I
  • Plato and Aristotle : Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.
  • Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz); Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.
  • Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) : Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism.
  • Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space & Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God.
  • Hegel : Dialectical Method; Absolute
  • Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein : Defense of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing.
  • Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.
  • Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of Private
  • Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism.
  • Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sarte, Heidegger): Existence & Essence; Choice, Responsibility & Authentic Existence; Being-in-the-world and Temporality.
  • Quine and Strawson: Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars and
  • Carvaka : Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent
  • Jainism: Theory of Reality; Saptabhanginaya; Bondage and
  • Schools of Buddhism: Prat Ityasamutpada; Ksanikavada,
  • Nyaya—Vaiesesika: Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance; Theory of Pramana; Self, Liberation; God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
  • Samkhya; Prakrit; Purusa; Causation;
  • Yoga; Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi;
  • Mimamsa: Theory of
  • Schools of Vedanta : Brahman; Isvara; Atman; Jiva; Jagat; Maya; Avida; Adhyasa; Moksa; Aprthaksiddhi;
  • Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral
PHILOSOPHY SYLLABUS PAPER-II

Socio-Political Philosophy

  • Social and Political ldeals: Equality, Justice,
  • Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski,
  • Individual and State: Rights; Duties and
  • Forms of Government : Monarchy; Theocracy and
  • Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and
  • Humanism; Secularism; Multi-culturalism.
  • Crime and Punishment : Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital
  • Development and Social Progress.
  • Gender Discrimination : Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights;
  • Caste Discrimination : Gandhi and Ambedkar.

Philosophy of Religion

  • Notions of God : Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and Western).
  • Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).
  • Problem of
  • Soul : Immortality; Rebirth and
  • Reason, Revelation and Faith.
  • Religious Experience : Nature and Object (Indian and Western).
  • Religion without
  • Religion and
  • Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute
  • Nature of Religious Language : Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non- cognitive

Brief Philosophy Syllabus by Devraj Verma Sir