MPSC Philosophy Syllabus 2024, Exam Pattern, Section Wise Syllabus

• Ideas, Substance, Form and Matter, Causation, Actuality and Potentiality are all discussed by Plato and Aristotle.
• Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom; Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz).
• Empiricism: Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Skepticism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume).
• Kant: Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God; Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments.
• Hegel: Absolute Idealism and Dialectical Method.
• Defense of Common Sense; Idealism Refuted; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols: Moore, Russell, and Early Wittgenstein Saying and Showing in the Picture Theory of Meaning.
• Linguistic theory of necessary propositions; metaphysics rejected; Verification Theory of Meaning. Logical positivism.
• The Meaning and Use of Later Wittgenstein Language-games; Analysis of Spoken Language.
• Husserl's Phenomenology: Theory of Essences, Method Stay away from psychologism.
• Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Time and Temporality; Being-in-the-World and Authentic Existence; Existence and Essence.
• Quine and Strawson: Theory of Basic Particulars and Persons; Critique of Empiricism.
• Carvaka: Knowledge Theory; Denunciation of Transcendent Entities.
• Jainism: Liberation and Bondage, Saptabhanginaya, Theory of Reality.
• Buddhist schools include Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada, and Pratyasamutpada.
• Theories of Categories, Appearance, Pramana, Self, Liberation, God, Proofs of God's Existence, Causation, and Atomistic Theory of Creation are among the works of Nyaya—Vaiesesika.
• Samkhya, Purusa, Prakrit, Causation, and Liberation.
• Yoga; Samadhi; Kaivalya; Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas.
• Mimamsa: Knowledge Theory
• Brahman, Isvara, Atman, Jiva, Jagat, Maya, Avida, Adhyasa, Moksa, Aprthaksiddhi, and Pancavidhabheda are the schools of Vedanta.

• Liberty, justice, and equality are social and political principles.
• Austin, Bodin, Laski, and Kautilya are sovereign.
• State and Individual: Responsibilities, Duties, and Accountability.
• Three types of government exist: democracy, theocracy, and monarchy.
• Three political ideologies are anarchism, socialism, and marxism.
• Secularism, Multiculturalism, Humanism.
• Corruption, mass murder, genocide, and the death penalty are examples of crimes and punishments.
• Growth and Social Advancement.
• Discrimination based on gender: Empowerment, Land and Property Rights, Female Foeticide.
• Caste Discrimination: Ambedkar and Gandhi.

• Concepts of God: Nature; Significance to Humanity and the Universe. (Western and Indian).
• Evidences for the Presence of God and Their Rebuttal (Western and Indian).
• The Evil Problem
• Soul: Eternity; Resurrection and Freedom.
• Revelation, Faith, and Reason.
• Religious Experience: Object and Nature (Western and Indian).
• faith devoid of divine intervention.
• Morality and Religion.
• Religion Diversity and the Uncertainty of Absolute Truth.
• Religious language is both cognitive and non-cognitive, symbolic and analogous.

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