Paper – I Total Marks: 100
Western Philosophy
1. Introduction: Nature and Value of Philosophy
2. Greek Philosophers:
a) Plato: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of State
b) Aristotle: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge and Logic
3. Modern Philosophers:
a) Descartes: Doubt as a key to certainty, Dualism
b) Spinoza: Doctorine of substance, Ethics
c) Locke: Representative Realism
d) Berkeley: Subjective Idealism
e) Hume: Skepticism
f) Kant: Transcendental Idealism
g) Hegel: Dialectical Method, Absolute Idealism
h) Nietzsche: Superman, Will to Power
4. Contemporary Philosophical Movements:
a) Existentialism: Jean Paul Sartre
b) Logical Positivism: Criterion of Verifiability, Refutation of Metaphysics
c) Neo-Pragmatism: Richard Rorty: Objectivity, Relativism and Truth
RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
1. Brooke Noel Moore & Kenneth Bruder [2002] Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill, London.
2. Bertrand Russell [2003] History of Western Philosophy, Routledge, London & New York.
3. Roger Scruton [2002] A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge.
4. Frederick Copleston [1993] History of Philosophy, Reprint edition, Image.
5. Frank Thilly [1993] A History of Philosophy, Sabharwal Book Whole.
6. Jean-Paul Sartre [1977] Existentialism & Humanism, M.S.G. House
7. A.J. Ayer [1978] Logical Positivism, Greenwood Press