MPPSC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
PHILOSOPHY ( CODE NO. 22 )
1. Logic
- Nature of Logic, difference between Deduction and Induction,Truth and Validity, Informal Fallacies.
- Proposition and its types (Categorical, Hypothetical and isjunctive), Structure of Categorical Syllogism, Figures and Moods , Rules and Fallacies.
- Symoblic Logic - Importance of Symbols, simple and compound Statements, Truth Function and Truth Tables, Tautology, Contradictions and Contingent Statements.
- Indian logic- inference theory in Buddist and Nyaya Philosophy
- Indian Ethics - Ethics of Gita, Buddha, Jain , Charvaka and Gandhi.
- Western ethics - Moral Concepts, Good, Right, Duty, Virtue,Freedom, Responsibility and Justice. Moral Standards –Hedonism and Perfectionism, Ethics of Kant, Theories of Punishment.
- Greek Philosophy - Socrates’s, dialectical Method ,Plato’s theory of knowledge and Aristotle’s. Causation theory.
- Medieval Philosophy - Concepts of God, St. Aquinas and St.Anselm .
- Modern Philosophy - Rationalist thinkers – Descartes , spinoza Leibnitz, Empiricism - Locke, Berkeley and Hume.Kant's theory of criticism, Categories of understanding, Antinomies and space and time.
- Orthodox and Heterodox Schools with reference to their .basic concepts and theories - Charvaka, Buddha, Jain, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta ( Shankara and Ramanuja )
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