(Syllabus) Prelim Examination - Syllabus (Philosophy)

Preliminary Examination Syllabus  - Philosophy

GROUP - A

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY (WESTERN AND INDIAN) :

(a) Nature and Scope and Branches of Philosophy.

(b) Methods of Philosophy.'

(c) Rationalism and Empiricism as theories of origin of knowledge.

(d) The correspondence theory and the coherence theory of truth.

(e) Realism, Nave and Scientific.

(f) Idealism - subjective and objective.

(g) Categories : Substances space time and casualty

(h) Proofs of the existence of God.

(i) Purusha, Prakriti and causation.

GROUP - B

LOGIC :

(a) Logic as the study of reflective thinking.

(b) Laws of thought.

(c) Proposition - traditional and modern analysis, Traditional and modern classifications of propositions.

(d) Conversion, obversion, contraposition and inversion.

(e) Structure, characteristics, definition, figures, mood and Rules of categorical syllogism.

(f) Hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms and dilemmas.

(g) Testing syllogism.

(h) Inductive inference and its relation to deduction.

(i) Analogical Inference.

(j) Mill’s Inductive methods.

(k) Law of uniformity of nature and law of causation.

(l) Conditions, Verification and importance of Hypothesis in scientific enquiry.

PSYCHOLOGY :

(a) Definition, Scope and Utility of psychology.

(b) Introspection and experiment as methods of psychology.

(c) Nature, kinds and the water - Fechner Law of Sensations.

(d) Kinds of imagination - Imageless thinking.

(e) Conditions of memory and forgetting.

(f) Nature and grounds of belief.

(g) Analysis, kinds and theories of emotion.

(h) Definition, conditions and characteristics of attention.

(i) Nature of intelligence and intelligence quotient.

(j) Definition and theories of learning.

GROUP - C

ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY :

(a) Definition and Scope of Ethics.

(b) Moral and non-moral action.

(c) Moral judgement and its object.

(d) Rigourism and different forms of hedonism.

(e) Theories of punishment.

(f) Nature and Scope of Social philosophy.

(g) The Social Nature of Man.

(h) Relation between individual and society.

(i) Family as a social institution.

(j) Religion as cohesive social factor.

(k) Caste system and Varnasramadharma.

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