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    WBCS Exe Etc Exam Main Optional Subject Philosophy Syllabus

    Paper – I :

    Problems of Philosophy (European and Indian)

    1. Plato and Aristotle : Ideas, Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.
    2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz) : Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge;Substance; God; Determinism and Freedom.
    3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) : Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Eliminating thoughts ,Self and God; Scepticism.
    4. Kant : Possibility of Synthetic a priori judgments; Space and Time; Categories.
    5. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein : Defence of Common sense; Refutation of Idealism;Logical Atomism; Picture Theory of Meaning.
    6. Logical Positivism : Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics.
    7. Cârvâka : Theory of Knowledge; Metaphysics and Ethics.
    8. Jainism : Anekântavâda,; Saptabhanginaya.
    9. Buddhism : Four Noble Truths; Pratîtyasamutpâda, Kşaņikavâda, Nairâtmyavâda.
    10. Nyâya – Vaiśesika :Theory of mind ,Theory of Categories; Theory of Pramâna; Self; Theory of Causation;Atomistic Theory of Creation.
    11. Sâmkhya : Prakŗti; Puruşa; Causation; Theory of Evolution.
    12. Yoga : Citta; Cittavŗtti.
    13. Mîmâmsâ : Epistemology; Theory of Validity.
    14. Vedânta : Views of Śamkara and Râmânuja on Brahman; Îśvara; Âtman; Jîva; Jagat; Mâyâ;Avidyâ; Adhyâsa.
    15. Swâmi Vivekânanda : Practical Vedânta.
    16. Sri Aurobindo : Evolution; Involution; Integral Yoga.
    17. Rabindranath Tagore: Nature of Man; Surplus in Man.

    Paper – II : Socio – Political Philosophy and Psychology

    1. Social and Political Ideals : Equality, Justice, Liberty: Views of Mill, Locke, Rawls.
    2. Individual and State : Rights, Duties and Accountability.
    3. Political Ideologies : Anarchism, Marxism, Socialism and Democracy.
    4. Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.
    5. Social Change : Gandhi, Ambedkar.
    6. Mind – Body Problem : Dualism, Philosophical Behaviourism, Person Theory of Strawson.
    7. Levels of Mind; Proofs for the existence of the unconscious; Freud’s theory of dream, citta,cittavŗtti (Yoga). Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
    8. Standards of Morality : Utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Deontological Theories.
    9. Virtue Ethics : Aristotle.
    10. Human Rights and Discrimination.
    11. Feminism : Liberal and Radical.
    12. Environmental Ethics : Bio-centric ethics and Eco-centric ethics.
    13. Theories of Punishment; Capital Punishment.
    14. Terrorism and Just war.
    15. Indian Ethics : Puruşârtha, Concept of Liberation, Anuvrata and Mahâvrata (Jainism),Brahmavihâra (Buddhism).
    16. Proofs for the existence of God : Logical atomism,Descartes, St. Anselm, Naiyâyikas.
    17. Religion without God, Religion and Morality.
    18. Religious Pluralism, Determinism.
    19. Nature of Religious Language : Cognitive and Non-cognitive, Analogical and Symbolic.

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