Sample Material of UPSC Mains Philosophy (Optional) Study Kit

Indian Philosophy

• What is Philosophy?
• Samkhya
• Yoga
• Uttar Mimamsa
• Buddhism
• The Vedas, Brahmanas & Their Philosophy
• The Earlier Upanisads (700 B.C. 600 B.C.)
• General Observations on The Systems of Indian Philosophy
• Buddhist Philosophy
• The Jaina Philosophy
• The Kapila and The Patanjala Samkhya (Yoga)
• The Nyaya-vaisesika Philosophy
• Mimamsa Philosophy
• The Sankara School of Vedanta

Western Philosophy

• The Reformation and Counter Reformation
• The Rise of Science
• Francis Bacon
• Hobbes’s Leviathan
• Descartes
• Spinoza
• Leibniz
• Philosophical Liberalism
• Locke’s Theory of Knowledge
• Locke’s Political Philosophy
• Locke’s Influence
• Berkeley
• Hume
• From Rousseau to the Present Day The Romantic Movement
• Rousseau
• Kant
• Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century
• Hegel
• Nietzsche
• The Utilitarians
• Karl Marx
• Philosophy

Socio Political Philosophy

• Aristotles Theory of Justice
• Procedural and Substantive Justice
• Kautilya (Arthashastra) 3rd Country B.C.
• Rights
• Human Rights
• Monarchy, Theocracy and Democracy
• M.N. Roy
• Classical Theory
• Pluralistic Theory of Democracy
• Anarchy
• Historical Materialism
• Ideal Communist Society
• Socialism
• Corresponding Theory
• India in context of Secular State
• Multiculturalism
• Caste Discrimination

Philosophy of Religion

• Theology and Falsification
• Theology and Verification
• An Empiricist’s View of The Nature of Religious Belief
• Evil and Omnipotence
• The Free Will Defence
• Religious Beliefs and Language-games
• Belief ‘In’ and Belief ‘That’
• From World to God
• Divine Necessity
• Philosophy, Religion, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

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