History and Problems of Philosophy

1. Plato and Aristotle:

Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.

2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza,Leibniz):

Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.

3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume):

Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism.

4. Kant:

Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time;Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God

5. Hegel:

Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism

6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein:

Defence of Common sense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing.

7. Logical Positivism:

Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.

8. Later Wittgenstein:

Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of Private Language.

9. Phenomenology (Husserl):

Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism.

10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger):

Existence and Essence; Choice, Responsibility and Authentic Existence; Being-in-the 杦orld and Temporality.

11. Quine and Strawson:

Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars and Persons.

12. Ca-rva-ka:

Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent Entities.

13. Jainism:

Theory of Reality; Saptabhan(ginaya; Bondage and Liberation.

14. Schools of Buddhism:

Prati-tyasamutpa-da; Ksanikavada, Naira-tmyava-da

15. Nya-ya- Vais'esika:

Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance;Theory of Prama-na; Self, Liberation; God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.

16. Sa-mkhya:

Prakrti; Purusa; Causation; Liberation

17. Yoga:

Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.

18. Mima-msa:

Theory of Knowledge

19. Schools of Veda-nta:

Brahman;I-s'vara; A-tman; Jiva; Jagat; Ma-ya-; Avidya-; Adhya-sa; Moksa; Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda

20. Aurobindo:

Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.
Socio-Political Philosophy

1. Social and Political Ideals:

Equality, Justice, Liberty.

2. Sovereignty:

Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.

3. Individual and State:

Rights; Duties and Accountability

4. Forms of Government:

Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.

5. Political Ideologies:

Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism

6. Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.

7. Crime and Punishment:

Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment.

8. Development and Social Progress.

9. Gender Discrimination:

Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights; Empowernment.

10. Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar Philosophy of Religion:
1. Notions of God: Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and Western).
2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).
3. Problem of Evil.
4. Soul: Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
5. Reason, Revelation and Faith.
6. Religious Experience: Nature and Object (Indian and Western).
7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
10. Nature of Religious Language: Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non- cognitive.