UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2024, UGC NET Syllabus PDF Download

• Paper 1: 100 Marks
• Paper 2: 200 marks (Philosophy)

• The concept, objectives, and levels of teaching.
• Learner characteristics and factors that influence teaching.
• Teaching methods and support systems, including traditional, modern, and ICT-based approaches, etc.

• Research, understanding its types and characteristics.
• Research methods and follow the steps involved in research.
• Thesis and article writing formats, etc.

• A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

• Communication, recognizing its types and characteristics.
• Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication, etc.

• Reasoning and mathematical aptitude, including understanding number series, letter series, mathematical concepts, etc.

• Argument structures, apply deductive and inductive reasoning, recognize analogies, utilize various inference techniques, etc.

• Source, acquire, classify, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data.
• Present data graphically or through mapping and assess its implications in governance, etc.

• ICT fundamentals and internet basics.
• Digital initiatives in higher education and the role of ICT in governance, etc.

• Concepts related to development and environment.
• Human-environment interaction, environmental issues, and protection measures, etc.

• History and evolution of higher education in India.
• Learning programs, including professional and technical education, etc.

• Vedic and Upaniṣadic: Ṛta – the cosmic order, the divine and the human realms; the centrality of the institution of yajῆa (sacrifice), theories of creation Ātman – Self ( and not – self ), Jāgrat, Svapna, Susupti and Brahmaṇ
• Jainism
• Buddhism
• Yoga, etc.

• Epistemology and Metaphysics
• Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, Ionians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Democritus,
• The Sophists and Socrates
• Plato and Aristotle, etc.

• Concept of Purusārtha, Śreyas and Preyas
• Varṇāshrama, Dharma, Sādhāraṇa Dharma
• Ṛna and yajῆa, Concept of Duty
• Karma-yoga, Sthitprajῆa, Svadharma, Lokasaṃgraha
• Apurva and Adṛṣta, etc.

• Concepts of Good, right, justice, duty, obligation, cardinal virtues, Eudaemonism, and Intuition as explained in Teleological and Deontological Theories
• Egoism, Altruism, Universalism
• Subjectivism, Cultural Relativism, Super-naturalism
• Ethical realism and Intuitionism, etc.

• Swami Vivekananda: Practical Vedanta, Universal Religion, Religious Experience, Religious Rituals
• Sri Aurobindo: Evolution, mind and supermind, Integral Yoga
• Iqbal: Self, God, man and superman, Intellect and Intuition
• Rabindranath Tagore: Religion of man, ideas on education, Concept of Nationalism
• K. C. Bhattacharyya: Swaraj in ideas, Concept of Philosophy, subject as Freedom, the doctrine of Maya, etc.

• Analytic and Continental Philosophy:
• Frege: Sense and Reference
• Logical Positivism: Verification theory of meaning, Elimination of metaphysics, concept of Philosophy
• Moore: Distinction between Sense and Reference, Refutation of Idealism, Defense of commonsense, Proof of an External World, etc.

• Mahabharata: Danda-niti, foundations, Rajdharma, Law and Governance, Narada’s Questions to King Yudhisthir
• Kautilya: Sovereignty, Seven Pillars of State-craft, State, Society, Social-life, State administration, State economy, law and justice, internal security, welfare and external affairs
• Kamandaki: Social order and State elements, etc.

• Plato: Ideal State and Justice
• Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau: Social Contract Theory
• Isaiah Berlin: Conceptions of Liberty
• Bernard Williams: Idea of Equality
• Liberalism: Rawls; Distributive justice, Nozick; Justice as Entitlement, Dworkin; Justice as equality; Amartya Sen: Global Justice, Freedom and Capability, etc.

• Truth and Validity
• Denotation and Connotation
• Nature of Propositions
• Categorical Syllogism
• Laws of thought
• Classification of Propositions, etc.

• What is applied Philosophy?
• Philosophy of Technology; technology, dominance, power and social inequalities Democratisation of Technology
• Public evaluation of science and technology, etc.

Teaching Aptitude, Research Aptitude, Reading Comprehension, Communication, Reasoning (including Maths), Logical Reasoning, Data Interpretation, Information & Communication Technology (ICT), People & Environment, and Higher Education System

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