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Plato-Idealism- Allegory of the Cave- theory of knowledge - Aristotle, - form and matter – potentiality and actuality - causation, Unit 2Medieval Philosophy, St. Thomas Acquinas – Faith and Reason, Proofs for the existence of God., St. Augustine- Problem of evil, Unit 3 Modern Philosophy, Francis Bacon – Inductive Method – Theory of Idols, Rene Descartes – Cogito ergo sum – substance – mind- body dualism, Spinoza- substance – attributes- modes- pantheism., Lebnitz – theory of monads - pre established harmony., John Locke – Rejection of innate ideas – theory of knowledge., George Berkely – subjective idealism – rejection of abstract ideas., David Hume, Impressions and Ideas, Hume's fork, Denial of soul, substance and cause- effect relation – skepticism., Unit 4 Philosophy of Kant and Hegel, Immanuel Kant, The Critical Philosophy – Apriori -Aposteriori distinction, - synthetic- analytic distinction – Copernican revolution of Kant – space and, synthetic unity of apperception, noumena – paralogism of reason -antinomies. Absolute Idealism of Hegel –, Art , Religion and Philosophy - Thought and Being, time, categories, phenomena and, Geist, Dialectical, Method., Unit 5 Philosophy of Marxism, Dialectical Materialism – Historical materialism, Dialectics of social, change – economic determinism – classless society., Module - 3, Marks:7, Ethics, Unit 1, Introduction, Definition of Ethics- Classification of Ethics : Descriptive ethics, Normative, Ethics, Applied Ethics and Meta ethics.
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Unit 2 Theories of Ethics – Utilitarianism – Betham and J S Mill – Deontology, Kant and W D Ross, Self-realization theory - Bradley, Pragmatic theory – John, Dewey, MacIntyre- Causistry, virtue theory. Plato Aristotle, arête, eudaimonia and Alasdair, -, Unit 3 Rights, Duties and Justice, Fundamental Rights - Nature of Duties, Theories of Punishment Deterrent- Reformation and Retribution, Justice, Distributive justice of John Rawls., Unit 4 Ethical Skepticism – origins - Ayer and Russell., Unit 5 Meta ethical Theories, Ethical cognitivism and non cognitivism - Ethical non-naturalism. G E, Moore -Naturalistic fallacy- Emotivism – C L Stevenson- Prescriptivism - R M, Hare., Module - 4, Marks:7, Logic and Symbolic Logic, Unit 1 Introduction, Reflective thinking, Deduction and Induction, Terms – Propositions and, Arguments – Truth and Validity - Laws of thought., Unit 2 Categorical propositions – quantity, quality – distribution of terms, Euler's, Circle., Unit 3 Inference, Immediate inference, Square of opposition- Eduction, conversion, obversion – contraposition. Mediate inference-syllogism – categorical syllogism:, Rules and fallacies - Figure and Moods- Hypothetical syllogism, Disjunctive, syllogism – Dilemma., Unit 4 Inductive Reasoning - Problem of induction, Hypothesis – formation and verification of hypothesis – theory and law. Analogy –, postulates of induction
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primary and secondary analogue, Relevance and Ambiguity., conditions of a good analogy- fallacies of, Unit 5 Symbolic Logic, Advantages of symbolic logic - logical operators – statement and statement, argument and argument, construction of basic truth tables for conjunction, disjunction,, truth table as a decision, form, tautology, contradiction and contingent, forms, implication, negation and material equivalence, procedure., Rules of Inference – formal proof of validity – rules of replacement, Quantification, quantification rules., Universal and Existential quantifier, preliminary, Module 5, Marks:7, Modern Indian Thought, Unit 1, The Indian renaissance movement., Unit 2 Swami Vivekananda – Practical Vedanta- Concept of Man, SriAurobindo - Evolution and Involution – Integral Yoga., Tagore – Jeevandevata, Nature of man-humanism, Gandhi – truth and non-violence- Sarvodaya – trusteeship – Swadeshi -, Satyagraha – Swaraj – Ramarajya., Unit 3 Dr. S Radhakrishnan – intellect and intuition – religious experience, KC Bhattacharya – subject as freedom, J. Krishnamurthy – freedom from the known, Mohammed Iqbal – concept of ego, man and his destiny., Module 4 M N Roy – Radical humanism Critique of Marxism, Dr. BR Ambedkar – Critique of casteism, neo – Buddhism., Module 5 Philosophy of Sri Narayana Guru : Concept of Caste with reference to, Jati Mimamsa, Philosophy and Religion, Chattampi Swamikal – Philosophy of Vedanta.
