Syllabus from Paper II

Day

Date

Syllabus from Paper I

Day 1

15th September

Plato and Aristotle

Day 2

16th September Same

Same

Day 3

17th September Rationalism(Descartes

Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.

Social and Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty.

Spinoza,Lebnitz)
Day 4

20th September

Empiricism (Locke

Individual and State: Rights; Duties and Accountability

Berkeley, Hume)
Day 5

21st September Kant

NA

Day 6

22nd Septembe Hegel

NA

Day 7

23rd September Moore, Russell

NA

and Early Wittgenstein:

Day 8

24th September NA

Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy AND Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism

Day 9

27th September Logical Positivism

NA

Day 10

28th September NA

Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism AND Crime and Punishment:

Day 11

29th September Later Wittgenstein

Development and Social Progress

Day 12

30th September Phenomenology (Husserl)

NA

Day 13

1st October

Existentialism

NA

Day 14

4th October

Day 15

5th October

Quine and Strawson

NA

Day 16

6th October

Revision(Kant and Hegel)

Revision (Social Political Ideals + Sovereignity)

Day 17

7th October

Revision(Empiricism

Revision (Individual Rights, Forms of Government)

Caste Based and Gender Based Discrimination

and Rationalism)
Revision(Logical Positivism)

Revision (Last three topics)

11th October

Charvaka and Jainism

Notions of God

12th October

Buddhism

Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique

Day 21

13th October

Buddhism

Problem of Evil

Day 22

14th October

NA

Soul

Day 23

17th October

Nyaya-Vaisheshika

Reason, Revelation and Faith

Day 24

18th October

Nyaya-Vaisheshika

NA

Day 25

19th October

Samkhya

Religious Experience

Day 26

20th October

Samkhya and Yoga

Religion without God

Day 27

21st October

Mimamsa

Religion and Morality

Day 28

24th October

Mimamsa

Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.

Day 29

25th October

School of Vedanta (Shankar)

NA

Day 30

26th October

School of Vedanta (Ramanuj)

NA

Day 31

27th October

School of Vedanta (Madhav)

NA

Day 32

28th October

Aurobindo

Nature of Religious Language

Day 18

8th October

Day 19
Day 20