(Syllabus) RAS Pre-Syllabus: Philosophy (Code No. 23)

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RAS Pre-Syllabus: Philosophy (Code No. 23)

I. Formal Logic :

(a) Traditional Logic : categorical propositions, square of opposition, syllosistic arguments - figures and moods, rules of valid syllogism and fallacies, venndiagram technique for testing the validity of syllogistic arguments.

(b) Propositional Logic : truth-functional connectives and propositional forms, translation from ordinary discourse to formal language, truth tables; tautologous, contradictory and contingent propositional forms, valid and invalid truthfunctional arguments, derivations in propositional logic.

(c) Predicate Logic : Universal and existential quantifiers, translation from ordinary discourse to formal language, square of opposition, valid and invalid arguments in Monadic Predicate Logic.

II. Indian Ethics :

(a) Fundamental Concepts : Rta, yajna, rnaparisodha, dharma, karma and samsara, pravrtti and nivritti, purusartha.

(b) Bhagavad Gita : Varna and asrama, svadharma, classification scheme of sattvika, rajasika and tamasika; karma; bhakti and jnana; samatva as yoga and niskama karma, sthitaprajna.

(c) Bauddha and Jaina Ethics : The concept of dhamma, astangamarga, pancasila, arhat; triratna, anuvrata and mahavrata, kevali.

III. Western Ethics :

Moral concepts-value, good and right, duty and right, moral judgement, theories of moral standard, freedom and determinism, theories of punishment; meta-ethicsnaturalism, emotivisim and prescriptivism, individual and society-egoism and altruism.

IV. History of Philosophy : Indian and Western :

Charvaka, Jainism, Buddhism, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Purva mimamsa and Vedanta. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aguinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant.

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