F. Thilly, a History of Philosophy

What is a proposition - Terms - Kinds of terms. Kinds of propositions - Tradition ' , disjunctive. I Distribution of Terms in A E I 0 Proposition! Modern - Simple and Compound proposition ' . The Categorical Syllogi : The traditional categorical syllogism - Definition of Syllogism and mood - The general Rules of Syllogism - Fallacies of ~~llo~ism.

. The traditional square of opposition - Immediate inte propositions. Conditional Arguments: Hypothetical syllogism - Disjunctive syllogism Dilemma. The Law of thought: Part I1 -'INDUCTION What is Induction:

Induction.

The requirements of a good hypo . . is Symbolic Logic:

-..... ,.<- , . . Uses of symbolic Logic . . and Validity :. 4 . ~' '1 1 XIII. Truth functional compound statemepts: T- Conjunction, Negation, Implication, Biconditional materia equivalence. :Iv. Basic Truth Tables: Propositional variables, Logical constants Truth function nectives. I, . XV. Punctuation in Symbolic Logic: Use of brackets , Scope of constants i', Symbolization of statements Determining trught value of compound sta

' .id>. .' , r . .T. ' . ' , . . C'.'Al # BOOKS

1. L.S. Stebbing : A Modem Introduction to Logic (Relevant Chapters) T.M.P. Mahadevan : The Fundamentals of Logic I.M. Copi : Symbolic Logic (Relevant chapters)

1 cC p D.J.O. Connor : Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Relevant Chapters) I ff General Characteristics of Indian Philosophy The Vedas - Vedic concept of Rta, Vedic Religion I 1,@ I. The upanisha& - ~r&an (Saguna and nirguna) - Atrnan - Identity - Soul . . its nitwe and destiny "" r ' The Bhagavad GiQ - Kamiayoga , Bhaktiyoga, Jnanayoga - concept of God

se of the system - classification of the system - Vedic and Non - Vedic The Cawaka - Salient features - theory of perception; rejection of inference - Metaphysics - Ethics. I characteristics of Buddha's Philosophy - four noble truths on - No soul theory and the doctrine of momentariness -

8: Jainism - Ctergories - Anekmtavada - Syadavada - Liberation Ethics - . ,.*+...,i ..-, .- -.. '$-P . , d, .:v . 9. Nyaya - Vaiseska - - Theory of causation Atomism - God, Soul and its destiny tq.ie,: . 10. Sankhya yoga - Prakrti and Pma- Satkarya vada - Theory of Evolution - Bight limbs of Yoga - Idea of God. sa - Authority of the Veda and the Concept of Dhma- views

of kumarila and Prabhakara. -. I-,L- r. . I'

' 1'2. ADAITA VEDANTA: _Ic.r. I '1- vie' , Ad~aita:Concept of Brahman - Concept of Atman - Doctrine of Maya - Avidya - higher and 'lower knowledge - levels of realky, Pratibhaska and Paramarthika Vyavaharika - concept of Moksa - mew. .. ofattaining Moksa --livpukthi C.

i. . 1 & :Is, . L.,

3&xil, a i .b 1. Essentials of Indian Philosophy - M. Hirir-a ian Philosophy - D!%tta & Chatterjee.

5 .. < ,'A :

_. , . * a + -'.- -: PAPER I11 (2005 ADMISSION ONWARDS) &; ' #' ~efiition,Nature and uses of Ethics - Relations of Ethics of Psychology, Metaphysics and Religion.

1 The Psychological Basis of Ethics Voluntary Actions, general nature of il; i Jn ' desire, Want and Appetite, Desire and Wish, Wish and will, Will and Act, :~,'.d, j, Conduct and Character Motive and Intention. ! I , . 111. The fieedom of will - Law of Karma and its application 9, IV. Moral ~ud~erneAt- The nature of moral judgement, The object of moral

I , , -- judgement, the meaning of conscience. . ( V. The Development of morality - Customary morality, reflective morality. VI. The standard as law - The categorical Imperative - Kant's moral philosophy - Intuitionism. VII. The standard as Happiness - Varieties of Headonism - The theories of Bentaham and Mill. VIII. The standard as perfection - Herbert spencer's view of Ethics - Emergent Evolution, Hegels' view of Ethics, Green's View of Ethics; the real meaning of self - consistency.

IX. The moral standard as value - Good and Evil - Crime - Punishment - Theories of punishment. X. Moral concepts - Right and Good, and Duties casuistry. XI. The Virtues - The nature of virtue, Plato's cardinal virtues. Aristotle's classification of virtues. XII. The emotive theory of Logical positivist.

. \ - < I , XIII. Moral Programs t. c The nature of moral progress is humanity progressing Morally? Moral progress in the Individual. *L~ XTV. Medical Ethics Duties of Medical Practitioners in general - Ethical questions relating to the misuse of sex - determination of unborn child. Books w 1. William Lillie - An Introduction of Ethics 2. John S. Mackenzie - Mannual of Ethics : ' 3. Jadunath Sinha - A Manual of Ethics 4. Kusum - Bio-Ethics - Perspective and Dilemmas - Regency publications - New Delhi. 5. George H. Kieffor - Bio-Ethics - A Text Book of Issues Addison E' ing - California.- q . . 1 A PAPER IV - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

,.$ A, (2005 Admission onwards) . .

a) Greek Philosophy : The Greek view of life - City State -

lLy*? I.'' Characteristic Features of the Greek City ! . , . , \ . State. ,,, b) Plato : ,>, ,< Ideal State - Education - Communism. c) Aristotle - . ,, : The Rule of Law - The Best Practicable State. . , I

I Chapter - I1 il,, ,:, r.,<>,: . Medieval Philosophy Characteristic Feature of medieval Political Philosophy. St. Thomas Aquinas Aquinas' view on the state - Classification of 4 Government. 'ti i :er- I11 \d Thomas Hobbes Conception of Human Nature - State of Nature - Social Contract Theory. . ri* ' p.-'3 John Locke Human Nature - The State of Nature - Natural

Rights - Social Contract. %a ,, , . Rousseau: Human Nature - The State of Nature - Theory Q-1 Q-1 Will. Rlrtttk. ; negelian Dialectics - Theory of State - His &--- . .I view on freedom. :-'-. * 3~;''. r _ 7' . *a , , I - Dialectic Materialism - Economic , .-,L ;'3 i Determinism Theory of Surplus Value - Cl&s .. ,;j - I Struggle - Future Society. ..! . 'Llli * 4 II J Political Pluralism - Federation - Rights of the +.4 individual.

Spiritualization and Moralization of Politics - Savrvodaya - Satyagraha.

m, m, History &!E@ an Political Philosophy %'# +., A Ggarntnig of Politics

.." I' . 4 .' 8- 4. -* - PAPER V MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

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1. The Spirit of Modern Western Philosophy

, . 2. The Period of Modern Western Philosophy ,* ' ,' . , 1 1 3. The Method of Interpretation 'zizj,, * 1 11. RATIONALISM

1. Descartes The Method - The Theory of Innate Ideas - -' 'Cogito ergo sum' Argeuements for the Existence of God - The Three Substances -, 1. I Intractionism - Controbutions of Descartes. i "., I i - - t 2. Spinoza The Universal Substances Attributes Modes 2 ' I - Psycho - Physical Parallelism. t. 3. Leibniz . The Doctrine of Monads - The Pre-established Iiarrnony - the Best of all possible worlds.

111. EMPIRICISM , . - L' 1. John Locke : Rejection of Innate Idea. - origin of ideas - Primary and Secondary Qualities - Modes - Substances - Relations. 3,. George Berkeley : Rejection of Abstract Idea - 'Esse Est Percipi - Objections. 3. David Hume : Impressions and Ideas- Relations - Rejection of Substance Causation - Skepticism. IV. IDEALISM 1 Emmanual Kant - Synthetic Judgements 'a priori - Space and Time - Categories Noumena and Phenomena. Basic conceptions: whole and Part - Organic view - The Absolute Concreteness - Negativity - Dialectical Method. V, RECENT TRENDS 1. Logical Positivism : Verification Theory of Meaning. 2. Phenomenology The mehod of Phenomenological Enquiry. 3. Existentialism : General Characteristics of Existentialism. KS FOR STUDY . W.H. Wright, A History of Modern Philosop . F. Thilly, A History of Philosophy . F. Mayer, A History of Modern Philosophy . Will Durant, Story of Philosophy. PAPER - VI (A) PSYCHOLOGY (OPTIONAL)

Definition and Methods of Psychology The nervous system The eye; the ear; the skin; the chemorceptors

i: Intelligence: Individual and group differences Thinking; Learning

, Motivation; Emotion, Conflicts and their resolution

' --Toodworth and Marquis - Psychology (Methuen & Co) 1949 - The Fundamental of Human adjustment. '1. "2 'Cl'lr' , -C I I 1.,* ; :

\ PAPER - VI (B) lIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSIC ISAVASYA UPANISAD

bduction - The spiritual tradition of India - the Vedas, the Upanisads - Ptral teaching of the Upanisads. The importance of Isavasya Upanisad, lain purpose. , and the world; the &oncept of Parabraban, the concept of 'meswara, the ideal of renunciation (Verse - I) -:y , *. *. i k hdWisdom - Importance of work, reconciliation of the path of action 4 inaction, c(omparison with the ideai karma of the ' I ita (Verse - 2J . I! hYof the "Slayers of the Self ', (atmahano janah) (Verse - 3) e of the Supreme Reality as Immanent and Transcendent (Verses -

'g' state of the self-realised-transformationof the soul, fundamental , $41 ness, freedom from hatred, delusion and grief, (Verses - 6,7b . * Bgpcepts of Vidya (Knowledge) and Avidya (Ignorance) - their different.- t /ul& the result of them conjoined, (Verses - 9,10,11). -?!d Unmanifest and the Manifest, the result of worshipping them each, their oined result, (Verses - 12, 13, 14).

nce of Prayer -- Prayer of the dying man, declarationI of the Self - dev otion to per sonal God; (Verses - 15,l6, 17, '18)

rFOR STUDY: Book .e Principal Unpanisads - Edited with Introduction, Text, Translation Notes by S. Radhakrishnan. I

Texts Translation and Commentaries .by Sri. Aurobindo. Swami Sarvanands, (Sree Ramakrishna . Matha Publication) b, Isavasya Upanisad - Swami Chinmayananda. Upanisad - @.rNityaChaitanya Y +* ". ;.,:.r b . and' Rational

Interaction

and Tnxth .of . .'

) The Problem of Evil

adology and Other Philosophical Writings s. By Latta. R (Publisher: Butter Worth, 19

eory of Monads. By H. Wildon Carr

1 PAPER - VI D t PHILOSOPHICAL CLnssIc (EuRomAm '?BLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY - BERTRAND RUSSELL

d and works of Bertrand Russell. Fundamental problems in Philosphy:

) problem of appearance and reality; the existence of matter; the nature of

r 2 bblem of knowledge The theory of sense-data; knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description; knowledge of things and knowledge of truths.

r3 knowledge of general principles

w is apriori knowledge possible?; the world of universal; the knowledge of universal; self-evident truths; truth and falsehood; truth and belief; "I )wledge, error and probable opinion.

:limits of Philosophical knowledge; Philosophy as criticism; the value of dy of Philosophy.

b,problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

hnzwledge of the External World . Bertrand Russell. hilosophical Development Bertrand Russell.

- _dland Moore A.J. Ayer

kPhilbsophy, An Historical Introduction Barry Gross .,' * ,.:; 3i PAPER - VI E

THE BHAGAVAD - GXTA : KARMA YOGA , .:'?*.a

Chapter 1 : Introduction ' ' The Bhagavad-Gita as a handbook of Vedanta - Practical guide to every day life - the need of union of subjective mind (budhi) and objective mind I' (manas) to attain perfection-Paths to perfection-Karma, bhakthi and jnana, their integration.

Human personality: Jiva-3 bodies-sthula, sukma and lcarana. 3 states of consciousness jagrat, svapna and susupti. Witness-Sclf (sakshi) Atma-unity of consciousness-Sat- Chit-Ananada svaroopa.

Its nature, vyashti, samasthi-Thoory of maya, avidya. Iswara (God): -I Pratibimbavada and Avachodavada, Identify of jiva and Iswavara and identify of World and Iil~wara, Theory of super - imposition

(adhyaropavada). Tat-taamm~mi, $" ' hc Chapter 2 - Karma Yoga Bi Three gunas-satva, raja8 ad #&mas. Four Vamas-brahmana, khsatriya,

vaisya and sudra. ~vadhh5 for chittasudhi-atmadarsana, karma, karma bhala, bhala tyaga, 8-1 @,O. 2.38). Definitions of Karma Yoga- "buddhiyoga", "sidhya$#hfb "sama bhutva", "karmasu kausalarn" (B.G. , ISQmadarsana (B.G. 4.18). nishkarnakarma sdma oharka, loasamgraha (B.G. 3.3-25). 'm@ svadharrna-kinds of karma-nitya, ~d&rna-karmani akarma 3 -24) Karma samnyasa-renouncing , Chapter V). 7 . 8. *, r I' .j 'F' ...-. Chapter 3: >.

MethodoIogy to attain yoga through karma. (B.G. 6.1 1-26) karma yogi, his

nature7dukha-samyoga-viyoga-abheda, I budhi. Sarnadarswa-atmadarsana (B.G 6-26-23)

Karmayoga for practical efficiency in life and a stress-fiee life. ,I

Text: ,.. .

The Bhagavad-Gita. Transl. and Interpretations by Dr. S. Radha Krishnan. ,

References:

1. The Holy Gita Commentary - By Swami Chinmayananda

2. Bhagavad-Gita Svadhyam - Transl. and Commentary by Nitya Chaitanya Yati.

3. Srimadh Bhagavad Gita, Sivaravindarn, Mahabhashyam - By Prof. G. Balakrishnan Nair

4. Kindle Life - By Swami Chinmayananda

5. Dhakshinamoorty sthotram - Coqmentary by Swami Chinmayananda 6. Vivekachoodamani - Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda

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SOCIOLOGY (SUBSIDIARY)

Definition and Scope of Sociology : Sociology and other Social Sciences.

Sociological Method - Social Surveys and their importance, Primary Concepts. Society. Community: Association, Institution, their characteristics and functions. Individual and Society. Major social groups: Nature and types of Groups: their characteristics. Primary and secondary groups - their functions. Major Social Institutions Family: Sociological significance of family characteristics, functions, types of family: changes in the institution of family; family and state. Social Stratifications: Characteristics, Major forms - Slavery estate, caste; *

Social Control: Mores, folkways; custom and laws. Agencies of Social

Social change: Factors of Social change: change in Major social

1. T.B. Bottomore - Sociology: A guide to problem and Literature. - 17 2. R.N. Sharrna - Principles of Sociology j ti ,, 3. Pasmal Gisbert - Fundamentals of Sociology - Scientific Social Surveys & Research 5. K. Devis - Human Society Reference: 1. Morris Ginsberg - Sociology 2. Samuel Reening - Sociology 3. Peter Berger - Institution to Sociology 4. Alex Intleles What is Sociology 5. Maclver & Page Principles of Sociology AESTHETICS (SUBSIDLARY)

1. Introduction - What is aesthetics? Origin of the term - a brief survey of aesthetics specifiing the views of Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Hegel. Indian approach to the subject matter of aesthetics. 2. Art - general definition - Media of Art - Classification of arts by their media - visual art - auditory art - mixed art - spatio - temporal arts - Fine arts and

useful arts. , 3. Work of - '~at&ials of art - form, content and style - work of art and aesthetics experience.

of Karna - Art and end in itself - Art as a means of Noksa. 5. Theories of Art. (i) Art as imitation or representation

(iv) Marxist theory of Art.

(iv) Beauty in Art - its character.

8, The existence and importance of Dhvani - Meanings and varieties of Dhvani - Varieties of Dhwani under its different senses.

1, Aesthetics an introduction to the Philosophy of Art 2, Indian Aesthetics - Rama Swami Sastri 3, Fundamental questions Theor Na