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 Main Exam Optional Paper - Philosophy.
MCS & MPS 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 Freefom.
- Leibnitz : Monads; Theory of Perception of 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, Reputation of idealism), Russell (Theory of Descriptions).
- Logical Atomism : Atomic Facts, Atomic sentences, Logical Constructions and Incomplete Symbols
- (Russell), Distinction of saying and showing (Wittgenstein)
- Logical Positivism : Verification theory and rejection of Metaphysics, Linguistic Theory of
- Necessary Prepositions.
- 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, Ksanikavyds, Nairatmyavada, Schools of Buddhism, Sautrantika Theory of Pramana, Ideal of Bodhisattva.
- Samkhya : Pakriti, Purusa, Theory of Causation, Liberation.
- Naya‐Vaisesika : Theory of Pramana, Self, Liberation, God and Proofs of God’s Existence,
- Categories, Theory of Causation, Atomistic theory of Creation.
- Mimansa : Theory of Knowledge.
- Vedanta : Schools of Vedanta Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhav (Brahman, Isvara, Atman, Jiva, Jagat, Maya, Avidya Adhyasa, Moksa).
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, Impersonalistic, Naturalistic.
- Proofs 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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