Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams
UPSC Exams Indian Civil Services Syllabus for Main Exams: Philosophy
Paper-I
History and Problems of Philosophy
Section-A
Plato : Theory of Ideas.
Aristotle : Form, Matter and causation.
Descartes : Cartesian Method and certain knowledge, God, Mind-Body Dualism.
Spinoza : Substance, Attributes and Modes, Pantheism; Bondage and Freedom.
Leibnitz : Monads; Theory of Perception God.
Locke : Theory of Knowledge, Rejection of Innate Ideas; substance and qualities.
Berkeley : Immaterialism, God, Criticism of representative Theory of Perception.
Hume : Theory of knowledge, Scepticism Self, Causality.
Kant : Distinctions between synthetic and analytic judgements and between aprion and aposteriori judgements, Space, Time Categories, Possibility of Synthetic Apriori Judgements, Ideas of Reason and Antinomics; Criticism of the Proofs for the Existence God.
Hegel : Dialectical Method, Absolute Idealism.
Precursors of Linguistic Analysis : Moore (Defence of common sense, Reputaion of idealism), Russell (Theory of Descriptions).
Logical Atomism : Atomic Facts, Atomic sentences, Logical Constructions and Incomplete Symbols (Rusell), Distinction of saying and showing (Wittgenstein)
Logical Positivism : Verification theory and rejection of Metaphysics, Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.
Phenomenology : Husserl.
Existentiaslism : Kierkegaard, Sartre.
Quine : Radical empiricism.
Strawson : theory of person.
Section-B
Carvaka : Theory Knowledge, Materialism.
Jainism : Theory of Reality, Saptabhangi Naya, Bondage and Liberation.
Buddhism : Pratityasamutpada, Ksanikavýds, Ńairătmyavăda, Schools of Buddhism, Sautrantika Theory of Pramana, Ideal of Bodhisattva.
Samkhya : Prakriti, Purusa, Theory of Causation, Liberation.
Naya-Văisesika : Theory of Pramăna, Self, Liberation, God and Proofs of God’s Existence, Categories, Theory of Causation, Atomistic theory of Creation.
Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams
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