PHILOSOPHY HONOURS COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CBCS (2016-17 AB) Semester Core Course (14) Ability Enhancement compulsory course (AECC) (2) Ability Enhancement compulsory course (AECC) (2) (Skill Based) Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) (4) Generic Elective (GE) (4) 1ST CORE-I (20+80) MIL (O/A.E) (20+80) X X M.E-I (P-I) (20+80) CORE-II (20+80) 2ND CORE-III E.S X X M.E-I (P-II)
(20+80) (20+80) (20+80) CORE-IV (20+80) 3RD CORE-V (20+80) X SEC-I Communicative English & Writing Skill (20+80) X M.E-II (P-I) (20+80) CORE-VI (20+80) CORE-VII (20+80) 4TH CORE-VIII (20+80) X SEC-II (Subject Specific Skill) (20+80) X M.E.-II (P-II) (20+80) CORE-IX (20+80) CORE-X (20+80) 5TH CORE-XI (20+80) X X DSE-I (20+80) CORE-XII (20+80) DSE-II (20+80) 6TH CORE-XIII (20+80) X X DSE-III (20+80) X CORE-XIV (20+80) DSE-IV (Project-100) SEMESTER-I CC-1 : GENERAL PHILOSOPHY Unit-I : Definition, Nature and Function of Philosophy, Philosophy in relation to other modes of thinking like science and Religion Unit-II : Problems of Being : Monism and Pluralism Realism: (a) Naive Realism, (b) Representative Realism (Locke), Idealism : Meaning, Esse est Percipi (Berkeley) Unit – III : Problems of Knowledge: What is Knowledge? Sources of Knowledge : Empiricism, Rationalism
SEMESTER-III CC-5 : SYSTEMS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY (II) Unit-I : Yoga system of Patanjali: Citta Vriti Nirodha and Astanga Yoga Unit – II : Nyaya: Pramanas of inference. Vaisesika: Categories (Padarthas) Unit-III : Upanisadic view of Atman and Brahman Vidya & Avidya, Para Vidya & Apara Vidya Unit-IV : Sankara’s View on Maya, Jiva, Isvara & Brahman and Liberation (Jivanmukti & Videhamukti) Unit-V : Ramanuja – Refutation of Sankara’s view of Maya, Concept of Brahman, Jiva and Liberation Books Recommended: G. C. Nayak (ODIA) - Bharatiya Darshana B. B. Choudhury (ODIA) (Trans.) - Bharatiya Darshanara Ruparekha Dutta & Chatterjee – An Introduction to Indian Philosophy J. N. Sinha – Indian Philosophy R. K. Puligandla – Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy S. Radhakrishnan – Indian Philosophy (Vol. I & II) J. N. Sinha – Indian Philosophy SEMESTER-III CC-6 : ETHICS Unit-I : Definition, Nature & Scope of Ethics. Ethics in relation to Politics, Sociology and Religion Unit – II : Distinction between moral and non-moral action Moral Judgement and factual judgement, (object of Moral judgement) Unit-III : Utilitarianism, Hedonism Unit-IV : Rigorism, Perfectionism Unit-V : Theories of punishment; Retributive, Reformative and Preventive theory
SEMESTER-IV CC-8 : CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Unit-I : R. N. Tagore : God and Reality, Nature of Religion Man and his destiny Unit – II : Swami Vivekananda : Concept of Man and his Destiny, Practical Vedanta, Universal Religion Unit-III : Sri Aurovindo: Nature of World, Maya, Theory of Evolution, Satchidananda, Integral Yoga Unit-IV : M. K. Gandhi: Truth, God, Non-violence, Satyagraha and Sarvodaya Unit-V : S. Radhakrishnan : Concept of Man, Reality, Intellect & Intuition Religion Basic Study Materials: B. K. Lal – Contemporary Indian Philosophy T. M. P. Mahadevan & V. Saroja – Contemporary Indian Philosophy H. Sahoo (ed.) – Contemporary Indian Philosophy SEMESTER-IV CC-9 : HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY Unit-I : Bacon – Theory of Idola, Inductive Method, Descartes Universal Doubt, Cagito-ergo-sum, Interactionism Unit – II : Spinoza – Substance, Attribute and Modes Psycho-physical parallelism Leibnitz – Theory of Monads, pre-established Harmony Unit-III : Locke : Refutation of Innate Ideas, Sources of Knowledge Berkeley : Subjective Idealism, Esse-est-Percipi Unit-IV : Hume – Impression & Ideas, Scepticism, Theory of Causality Unit-V : Kant – Reconciliation between Empiricism and Rationalism, Distinction between Analytic and synthetic statement, Possibility of Synthetic Apriority Judgement. Books Prescribed
Y. Masih – History of Western Philosophy H. Ray & G. Das – (O) Paschatya Darshanara Itihasa Fran Thilly – A History of Philosophy Ira Sengupta – A History of Western Philosophy B. Russell – History of Western Philosophy Barlingay & Kulkarni – A critical survey of Western Philosophy SEMESTER-IV CC-10 : PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE Textual Study : John Hospers – An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis Unit-I : Word – Meaning : Meaning of the word “Meaning” Ambiguity. Unit – II : Definitions : Denotative, Connotative, & Ostensive Defining and Accompanying characteristics stipulative & Reportive Definition. Unit-III : Sentence – Meaning : Proposition and sentence word-meaning and sentence – meaning, criteria of sentence – meaning/ Unit –IV : Analytic – synthetic, a priori – a posteriori distinction logical possibility and impossibility. Unit – V : Concept ; Nature and source, Truth : Correspondence, Coherence and Truth as it “Works”
GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE) SEMESTER – I & III GE-1 : SYMBOLIC LOGIC Text - (Basson & O. Conner) Introduction to Symbolic Logic Unit – I : Ch-I Introductory Ch-II The Calculus of Propositions Unit – II : Ch-III The Calculus of Propositions (Sec 1 to 6) Unit – III : Ch-III The Calculus of Propositions (Sec 7 to 9) Unit – IV : Ch- V The Elements of Predicate Calculus Unit- V : Appendix Sec 1 to Sec – 4 SEMESTER –II & IV GE-2 : INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Unit – I : Salient features of Indian Philosophy and key concepts Carvaka – Epistemology, Metaphysics Jainism – Syadvada & Anekantavada Unit – II : Buddhism – Four Noble Truth, Doctrine of Dependent Origination, No Soul Theory, Nirvana Unit – III : Samkhya – Purusa, Prakriti, Evolution Yoga – Patanjali’s Citta Vritti Nirodha, Astanga Yoga Unit – IV : Nyaya – Theory of Inference Vaisesika – Padarthas (Categories) Unit- V : Samkara – Brahman, Atman, Maya & Liberation Ramanyan – Brahman, Atman, Maya & Liberation Books Recommended: Dutta & Chatterjee – An Introduction to Indian Philosophy C. D. Sharma – A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy G. C. Nayak (O) Bharatiya Darshana