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PAPER
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INDIAN
PHILOSOPHY 1. The basic features of Indian Philosophy
- Natures - Meaning and Scope - Schools of Indian Philosophy.
2. Vedas - Theism in Vedas
Upanisads
- Central teachings - Brahman - Atman and World; The
Bhagawad Gita - Different Yogas - Niskamakarma, Varna,
Aarama Dharma.
3. Carvaka Philosophy - Theory of Knowledge, materrialism,
Hedonism and attititude of Life; Jainism - Jiva and
Ajiva, Syadvada, Liberation: Buddhism - Four noble Truth,
Eight - Fold Path, Rochine of mementariness, Theory
of Department of Origination, Nirvan
4. Nyaya - Vaisesika - Definition and classification
of preception, inference and methods of arriving at
Vyapti, Classificaiton of inference, concept of God,
Atomism and categories.
5. Sankhya - Yoga - plurality of purusas and Evolution
of Prakrti, yoga psychology, Eight - Limbed Yoga.
6. Mimamsa and Vedanta - Mimamsa concept of Ritulism,
Sankara's views of Brahman, concept of Maya and world,
Jiva and Liberation; Ramanuja's concept of Aprtak Siddhi,
place of Bhakti in Liberation; Madhva's concept of Difference
and Dualism.
7. Saiva Siddhanta - Pati Pasu and Pasam paths for liberation,
Nature of Liberation.
8. Valluvar's Kural - Universal elements and applicaiton
in Kural, Social Relevance of Kural to modern man; Ramalinga
Adigalar's concept of Universal Brother - hood.
9. Gandhi - concept of Non - Violence, Trusteeship;
E.V. Ramsamy Self-respect movement; B.R. Ambatkar -
Upliftment of suppressed classes.
10. Swami Vivekanda - Universal Religion, Sri Aurobindo
- concept of superman and integral Yoga; Ramana Maharishi
Atma Vicara
PAPER - II
WESTERN
PHILOSOPHY 1. Greak Thought-common features of Greek
philosophy; Socratic method of Doubt and definition;
Plato's theory of Ideas - His concept of classification
of society and Training; to Aris tle's views on causality.
2. Augustines views on church:Special characteristics
of medieval Western philosophy. Anselm's proogs for
the existence of God; Thomas Aquina's theory of knowledge;
3. Salient features of modern Western philosophy; Rene
Decartes - Method of Doubt - Body-mind problem and its
influence: Benedict D. Spinoza - Theory of substance
- Attributes and modes; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz -
Theory of monads - Pre - estabilshed hazmony.
4. John Locke - Theory of knowledge; george Berkeley
- Refutation of matter, subjective idealism; David Hume
- criticism of substance, Refutation of Causality, Mitigated
scepticism.
5. Immanuel Knbat - Copernican revolution, Kant views
on space and time, synthetic judgments a priori, phenomonal
noumena, Hegal - Dialectical logic, manifestation of
the World - Spirit; F.H. Bradley-Appearance and Reality,
Absoulte idealism, theory of internal relations.
6. Naive - Realism; Neo - Realism - epistemology; Refutation
of idealism, Critical Realism, Nature of the objects
in perception, Bertrand Russel - Theory of sense date.
7. Pragmatism - Pierce's Theory of meaning; William
James concept of workability; John DeweY's instrumentalism;
comparison between coherence theory, correspondence
theory and Pragmatic theory of Truth.
8. Existentialism - Kierkegaard's views on life; Martin
Heidegger - concept of Desein, existence precedes essence;
Jean Paul Sartre-concept of bad faith and falsehood.
9. Logical positivism - vienna circle and anti - metaphysical
attitude; Wittgenstein's views on the role of philosophy;
principle of verification - strong and week; Rudolf
carnap - place of language.
10. Ethics - stages of developmemt of morality; pleasure
as standard; - Reason as standard; institution as standard;
Theories of punishment; Bio-ethics.
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