The Manipur Public Service Commission is the Constitutional body constituted for recommending candidates for recruitment to various posts of the Government of Manipur. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for MCSCC Main Exam Optional Paper Philosophy.
MCSCC Mains Syllabus
Optional Paper - 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 of 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 of Knowledge, Materialism.
- Jainism : Theory of Reality, Saptabhangi Naya, Bondage and Liberation.
- Buddhism : Pratityasamutpada, Ksanikavýds, Ñairãtmyavãda, Schools of Buddhism, Sautrantika Theory of Pramana, Ideal of Bodhisattva.
- Samkhya : Prakriti, Purusa, Theory of Causation, Liberation.
- Naya-Vãisesika : Theory of Pramãna, Self, Liberation, God and Proofs of God’s Existence, Categories, Theory of Causation, Atomistic theory of Creation.
- Mimãnsã : Theory of Knowledge.
- Vedãnta : Schools of Vedãntã Sankara, Rãmãnuja, Madhva (Brahman, Isvara, Ãtman, Jiva, Jagat, Mãyã, Avidyã Adhyãsã, Moksã).
Paper-II
Section-‘A’
Socio-Political Philosophy
- Political Ideals : Equality, Justice, Liberty.
- Sovereignty (Austin, Boidin, Laski, Kautilya).
- Individual and State.
- Democracy; Concept and forms.
- Socialism and Marxism.
- Theories of punishment.
- Co-existence and violence; Sarvoday.
- Gender-Equality.
- Scientific Temper and Progress.
- Philosophy of Ecology.
Section-‘B’
Philosophy of Religion
- Notions of God : Personalistic, Imparsonalistic, Naturalistic.
- Prooofs of the Existence of God and their criticisms.
- Immortality of Soul.
- Problem of Evil.
- Religious Knowledge : Reason, Revelation and Mysticism.
- Religion without God.
- Religion and Morality
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