Philosophy Optional Subject

PHILOSOPHY TEST-01 (SECTIONAL)

History and Problems of Philosophy

Plato and Aristotle :

 Rationalism :

 Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) :

 Kant:

 Hegel :

 Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein :

PHILOSOPHY TEST-02 (SECTIONAL)

Logical Positivism :

 Later Wittgenstein :

 Phenomenology (Husserl):

 Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sarte, Heidegger):

 Quine and Strawson :

PHILOSOPHY TEST-03 (SECTIONAL)

Charvaka :

 Jainism :

Schools of Buddhism :

 Nyaya :

 Samkhya :

 Yoga :

 Mimamsa:

 Schools of Vedanta :

 Aurobindo:

PHILOSOPHY TEST-04 (SECTIONAL)

Socio‐Political Philosophy

Social and Political ldeals :

Sovereignty :

Individual and State :

Forms of Government :

Political Ideologies:

PHILOSOPHY TEST-05 (SECTIONAL)

Humanism; Secularism; Multi-culturalism.

Crime and Punishment :

Development and Social Progress :

Gender Discrimination :

 Caste Discrimination :

PHILOSOPHY TEST-06 (SECTIONAL)

Philosophy of Religion

 Notions of God :

 Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).

 Problem of Evil.

 Soul : Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.

 Reason, Revelation and Faith :

 Religious Experience : Nature and Object (Indian and Western).

 Religion without God.

 Religion and Morality.

 Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.

 Nature of Religious Language :