UGC NET Philosophy Previous Year Question Papers PDF 2023

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UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2022 PDF

The UGC NET Philosophy syllabus is designed to test the candidate’s knowledge and understanding of the subject. UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2022 covers a wide range of topics, including the Classical Indian Philosophy, Indian philosophy, Western philosophy, modern Indian Thinkers etc. With Syllabus in below, there is UGC NET Philosophy question paper 2022.

Paper 2 Syllabus

Classical Indian Philosophy

Vedic and Upanisadic world-views : Rta—the cosmic order, the divine and the
human realms; the centrality of the institution of yajna (sacrifice), the concept
of ma—duty/obligation: theories of creation
Atman—Self {and not-seif), Jagrat, svapna, susupti and turtya, Brahman, sreyas
and preyas
Karma, samsara, moksa
Carvaka : Pratyaksa as the only pramana, critique of anumana and sabda.
rejection of non-material entities and of dharma and moksa .
Jainism : Concept of reality—sat, dravya, guna, paryaya, jiva, ajiva,
anekantavada, syadvada and nayavada; theory of knowledge; bondage and
liberation , G3.
Buddhism : Four noble truths, asfangamarga, nirvana, madhyam pratipad, pratityasamutpada, ksanabhangavada, anatmavada _.
Schools of Buddhism : Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Yogacara and Madinyamiia
Nyaya : PramG and aprama, pramanya and apramanya; pramdna : pratyaksa, nirvikalpaka, savikalpaka, laukika and alaukika; anumana :anvayavyatireka, lingaparamarsa, vyapti, classification : vyaptigrahopayas, hetvabhasa, upamana; $abda : Sakti, laksana, Gkanksa, yogyata, sannidhi and tatparya,
concept of God, arguments for the existence of God, adrsta, nihSryeasa
Vaisesika : Concepts of padartha, dravya, guna, karma, samanya, samavaya, visesa, abhava, causation : Asatkaryavada, samavayi, asamavayi nimitta
karana, paramanuvada, adrsta, nihsryeas
Samkhya : Satkaryavada, prakrti and its evolutes, arguments for the existence of prakrti, nature of purusa, arguments for the existence and plurality of purusa relationship between purusa. and prakrti, kaivalya, atheism
Yoga : Patanjali’s concept of citia and citta-vrtti, eight-fold path of yoga, the . role of God in yoga .
Purva-Mimamsa |
Sruti and its importance, atheism of purvamimamsa, classification of $rutivakyas, vidhi, nisedha and arthavada, dharma, © bhavana,
sabdanityavada, fatisaktivada
‘Kumarila and Prabhakara Schools of? mimamsa and their major points, of difference, triputi-samvit, ji atata, abhava and anupalabdhi, anvitabhidhanavada, abihifanvayavada Vedanta
Aduaita—Rejection of difference : Adhyasa, maya, three grades of satta, jiva, jtvanmukti, vivartavada
Visistadvaita : Saguna Brahman, refutation of rida, aprthaksiddhi, paririamavada, ja, bhakti and prapatti
Dvaita-—Rejection ‘of nirguna brahman and maya, bheda and saksi, bhakti.

Modern Indian Thinkers

Vivekananda—Practical vedanta, universal religion
Aurobindo—Evolution, mind and supermind, integral yoga.
Iqbal—Self, God, man and superman .
Tagore—Religion of man, ideas on education
K, C. Bhattacharyya—Concept of philosophy, subject as freedom, the doctrine
of maya.
Radhakrishnan—Intellect and intuition, the idealist view of life
J. Krishnamurti—Freedom from the known, analysis of self
Gandhi—Non-violence, satyagraha, swaraj, critique of modern civilization
Ambedkar—Varna and the caste system, Neo-Buddhism.

Classical Western Philosophy

Early Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle
Yonians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Democritus The Sophists and Socrates .
Plato—Theory of knowledge, knowledge (episteme) and opinion (doxa), theory of Ideas, the method of dialectic, soul and God
Aristotle—Classification of the sciences, the theoretical, the practical and the productive (theoria, praxis, techne), logic as an organon, -critique of Plato’s theory of Ideas, theory of causation, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, soul and God.
Medieval Philosophy
St. Augustine—Problem of evil
St. Anselm-—-Ontological argument
St. Thomas Aquinas—Faith and reason, essence and existence, the existence of God.

Modern Western Philosophy

Rationalism

Descartes : Conception: of method and the need for method in philosophy, clarity and distinctness as the criterion of truth, doubt and methodological
scepticism, the cogito~intuition or inference? innate ideas, the ‘real’ distinction
between mind and matter, role of God, proofs for the existence of God,
mind-body interactionalism
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Spinoza : Substance, Attribute and Mode, the concept of ‘God or Nature’, the
mind-body problem, pantheism, three orders of knowing
Leibniz : Monadology, truths of reason and truths of fact, innateness of all
ideas, proofs for the existence of God, principles of non-contradiction, sufficient
reason and identity of indiscernibles, the doctrine of pre-established harmony,
problem of freedom and philosophy
Empiricisin
Locke : Ideas and their classification, refutation of innate ideas, theory of
knowledge, three grades of knowledge, theory of substance, distinction between
primary and secondary qualities
Berkeley : Rejection of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities,
immaterialism, critique of abstract ideas, esse ‘est percipi, the problem of
solipsism; God and self . .
Hume ; Impressions and ideas, knowledge concerning relations of ideas and
knowledge concerning matters of fact, induction and causality, the external
world and the self, personal identity, rejection of metaphysics, scepticism,
reason and the passions
Critical Philosophy and After
Kant : The critical philosophy, classification of judgements, possibility of synthetic a priori judgements, the Copernican revolution, forms of sensibility, categories of understanding, the metaphysical and the transcendental deduction of the categories, phenomenon and noumeno.
Reason—soul, God and world as a whole, freedom and immortality, rejection of speculative metaphysics.
Hegel : The conception of Geist (spirit), the dialectical method, concepts of being, non-being and becoming. Absolute idealism.
Nietzsche : Critique of western culture, will to power
Moore : Refutation of idealism, defence of commonsense, philosophy and analysis.
Russell : Refutation of idealism, logic as the essence of «philosophy, logical atomism.
Wittgenstein : Language and reality, facts and objects, names and propositions, the picture theory, philosophy and language, meaning and use, forms of life
Husserl : The Husserlian method, intentionality
Heidegger : Being and nothingness, man as being-in-the-world, critique of technological civilization
Logical Positivism : The verifiability theory of meaning, the verification principle, rejection of metaphysics, unity of science
C.-S. Pierce and William James : Pragmatic theories of meaning and truth
G. Ryle : Systematically misleading expressions, category mistake, concept of mind, critique of Cartesian dualism.

Paper 2

Unit- 1

Vyavaharika and Paramarthika Satta
Nitya and anitya Dravya
Karanata
Akasa, Dik and Kala
Samanya and Sambandha
Cit, Acit and Atman

Unit – 2

Appearance and reality
Being and becoming ©
Causality, Space and Time
Matter, Mind and Self
Substance and Universals
The problem of personal identity

Unit— 3

Prama
‘Kinds of Pramanas
Khyativada
Pramanyavada
Anvitabhidhanavada and Abhihitanvayavada
Sabdagraha

Unit – 4

Definition of knowledge
Ways of knowing
Theories of error
Theories of truth
Belief and skepticism
Problem of induction

Unit – 5

Concept of Pratyaksa in Nyaya
Concept of Pratyaksa in Buddhism
Concept of Pratyaksa in Sarbkara Vedanta
Nature and kinds of Anumana —
Definition and Nature of Vyapti
Hetvabhasas

Unit – 6

Rna and Rta
Purusarthas, Svadharma
Varnadharma and Asramadharma
Niskamakarma and Lokasamgraha
Pancasila and Triratnas
Brahmaviharas.

Unit-7

Good, right, justice
Duty and obligation
Cardinal virtues
Eudaemonism
Freedom and responsibility
Crime and punishment

Unit- 8

Ethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism
Ethical realism and intuitionism
Kant’s moral theory
Kinds of utilitarianism.
Human rights and social disparities
Feminism

Unit – 9

Truth and validity
Nature of propositions
Categorical syllogism
Laws of thought
Classification of propositions
Square of opposition

Unit – 10

Truth-functions and propositional logic
‘Quantification and rules of quantification
Decision procedures
Proving validity
Argument and Argument-form
Axiomatic system, consistency, completeness

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