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Syllabus:Law
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Paper-I
History and Problems of Philosophy
Section-A
1. Plato : Theory of Ideas.
2. Aristotle : Form, Matter and causation.
3. Descartes : Cartesian Method and certain knowledge, God,
Mind-Body Dualism.
4. Spinoza : Substance, Attributes and Modes, Pantheism; Bondage and
Freedom.
5. Leibnitz : Monads; Theory of Perception God.
6. Locke : Theory of Knowledge, Rejection of Innate Ideas; substance
and
qualities.
7. Berkeley : Immaterialism, God, Criticism of representative Theory
of
Perception.
8. Hume : Theory of knowledge, Scepticism Self, Causality.
9. Kant : Distinctions between synthetic and analytic judgements and
between
aprion and aposteriori judgements, Space, Time Categories,
Possibility of
Synthetic Apriori Judgements, Ideas of Reason and Antinomics;
Criticism of the
Proofs for the Existence of God.
10. Hegel : Dialectical Method, Absolute Idealism.
11. Precursors of Linguistic Analysis : Moore (Defence of common
sense,
Reputaion of idealism), Russell (Theory of Descriptions).
12. Logical Atomism : Atomic Facts, Atomic sentences, Logical
Constructions
and Incomplete Symbols (Rusell), Distinction of saying and showing
(Wittgenstein)
13. Logical Positivism : Verification theory and rejection of
Metaphysics,
Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.
14. Phenomenology : Husserl.
15. Existentiaslism : Kierkegaard, Sartre.
16. Quine : Radical empiricism.
17. Strawson : theory of person.
Section-‘B’
1. Carvaka : Theory of Knowledge, Materialism.
2. Jainism : Theory of Reality, Saptabhangi Naya, Bondage and
Liberation.
3. Buddhism : Pratityasamutpada, Ksanikavýds, Ńairătmyavăda, Schools
of
Buddhism, Sautrantika Theory of Pramana, Ideal of Bodhisattva.
4. Samkhya : Prakriti, Purusa, Theory of Causation, Liberation.
5. Naya-Văisesika : Theory of Pramăna, Self, Liberation, God and
Proofs of
God’s Existence, Categories, Theory of Causation, Atomistic theory
of
Creation.
6. Mimănsă : Theory of Knowledge.
7. Vedănta : Schools of Vedăntă Sankara, Rămănuja, Madhva (Brahman,
Isvara,
Ătman, Jiva, Jagat, Măyă, Avidyă Adhyăsă, Moksă).
Paper-II
Section-‘A’
Socio-Political Philosophy
1. Political Ideals : Equality, Justice, Liberty.
2. Sovereignty (Austin, Boidin, Laski, Kautilya).
3. Individual and State.
4. Democracy; Concept and forms.
5. Socialism and Marxism.
6. Humanism.
7. Secularism.
8. Theories of punishment.
9. Co-existence and violence; Sarvoday.
10. Gender-Equality.
11. Scientific Temper and Progress.
12. Philosophy of Ecology.
Section-‘B’
Philosophy of Religion
1. Notions of God : Personalistic, Imparsonalistic, Naturalistic.
2. Prooofs of the Existence of God and their criticisms.
3. Immortality of Soul.
4. Liberation.
5. Problem of Evil.
6. Religious Knowledge : Reason, Revelation and Mysticism.
7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
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