Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Main Exam – Philosophy - Paper I
Paper – II
Socio – Political Philosophy
- Social and Political Ideals : Equality, Justice, Liberty.
- Sovereignty : Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.
- Individual and State : Rights; Duties and Accountability
- Forms of Government : Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.
- Political Ideologies : Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism
- Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.
- Crime and Punishment : Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment.
- Development and Social Progress.
- Gender Discrimination : Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights; Empowernment.
- Caste Discrimination : Gandhi and Ambedkar
Philosophy of Religion :
- Notions of God : Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. ( Indian and Western ).
- Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique ( Indian and Western ).
- Problem of Evil.
- Soul : Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
- Reason, Revelation and Faith.
- Religious Experience : Nature and Object ( Indian and Western ).
- Religion without God.
- Religion and Morality.
- Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
- Nature of Religious Language : Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non- cognitive.
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