CSS PHILOSOPHY Syllabus

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PHILOSOPHY
Total Marks – 200

PAPER I (Marks – 100)

1. Formal and informal arguments: Elements of deductive reasoning; validity and truth: Proposition and syllogism.

2. Definition with special reference to Aristotle, Ibn-e-Taimya’s Criticism of Aristotle; Relativity of definition: Ambiguity; vagueness and emotive use of language as impediments in clear thinking: Fallacies – formal, material and linguistic

3. Symbolic Logic: value of special symbols, symbols for conjunction, Negation, Disjunction and Implication, Method of Deduction: Formal proofs of validity, Rules of Replacement.

4. The nature of scientific theory: Scientific method; Inquiry at common sense level and scientific level; Scientific explanation; The grounds of belief: induction, probability and functional analysis.

5. Muslim contribution to Logic – inductive and deductive

PAPER – II (Marks -100)

PHILOSOPHY – WESTERN AND ISLAMIC

1. Idealism, Pragmatism, Vitalism Logical Positivism, Existentialism and Dialectical Materialism: The main arguments of these Philosophical theories and their impact on life and morals.

2. Muslim Rationalists and Social Thinkers-Al-Farabi, Ibn-i-Sina, Ibn-i-Rushd, and Ibn-i-Khaldun: their main doctrines.

3. Schools of Muslim Theology – Mutazilism, Ash’ arism, Sufism Al-Ghazali (his Ethics and Criticism of Muslim Rationalists)

4. Muslim thought in South Asia with special reference to Shah Wali Ullah. Sayyid hmad Khan and Iqbal and Post-Iqbalian Thought.

SUGGESTED READINGS

	Title	Author
1	A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics	Drenon D.A.
2	A History of Philosophical Systems	Firm, Vergilius
3	Aqliyyat-e-Ibn-e-Taimya (Urdu)	Maulana Muhammad Hanif Nadvi
4	A Modern Introduction to Logic	Stebbing, L.S.
5	Critical Thinking	Blank, Max
6	History of Muslim Philosophy Vol. I & II	Sharif, M.M
7	History of Modern Philosophy	Wright, W.K.
8	Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits	Russel, B.
9	History of Islamic Philosophy	Fakhri, Majid
10	Introduction to Philosophy	Patrick G.T.W.
11	Iqbal and Post-Kantian Voluntarism	Dar, B.A.
12	Introduction to Logic	Copi, I.M.
13	Logic Postivism	Qadir, C.A.
14	Philosophical Analysis	Urmson, J.O.
15	Reconstructon of Religious Thought in Islam	Iqbal, M.
16	Types and Problems of Pholosophy	Mead, H.
17	Types of Philosophy	Mocking, W.E.