The Meghalaya Public Service Commission is the State Public Service Commission is provided under Article 315 read with Article 316 of the Constitution of India. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for MCS & MPS Preliminary Exam Optional Paper - Philosophy.
MCS & MPS Prelims Syllabus
Optional Paper - Philosophy
Section – ‘A’
Problems of Philosophy
- Substance and Attributes : Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley’s criticism, Nyaya‐Viasesika, Buddhist criticism of Pudgala.
- God, Soul and the World : Thomas Acquinas, St. Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes , Nyaya‐Vaisesika, Sankara, Ramanuja.
- Universals : Realism and Nominalism (Plato, Aristotle, Berkeley’s criticism of abstract ideas, Nyaya‐Vaisesika, Buddhism).
- Bases of Knowledge : Pramanavada in Carvaka, Nyaya‐Vaisesika, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta.
- Truth and Error : Correspondence Theory, Coherence theory, Pragmatic Theory; Khyativada
(Anyathakhyati, Akhyati, Anivacaniyakhyati).
- Matter and Mind : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Berkerley
Section – B
Logic
- Truth and Validity
- Classification of sentences : Traditional and Modern.
- Syllogism : Figures and Moods; Rules of Syllogism (General and special) validation by Venn Diagrames;
Formal Fallacies.
- Sentential Calculus : Symbolisation; Truth‐Functions and their interdefinability; Truth Tables; Formal Proof.
Section – C
Ethics
- Statement o f fact and statement of value.
- Right and Good; Teleology of Deontology.
- Psychological Hedonism.
- Utilitarianism (Bentham; J.S. Mill).
- Kantian Ethics.
- Problem of the freedom of will.
- Moral Judgements : Descriptivism, Prescriptivism, Emotivism.
- Niskamakarma : Sthitaprajna.
- Jaina Ethics
- Four Noble Truths and Eight fold path in Buddhism.
- Gandhian Ehics : Satya, Ahimsa, Ends and Means.
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