Programme: B.A. Degree Course

Philosophy GENERAL

Name of the Paper CC/SEC/DSE Credit Points                         Course Outcome
Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics  CC – 1  6 CO 1- Student able to Know the etymological meaning of the word ‘Darsana’; understand nature and scope of Indian philosophy.

CO 2 – Understand about the different schools of Indian philosophy.

CO 3 – Know the meaning of the term ‘Carvaka’. Overview and critical appraisal of Carvaka school, its basic feature, its epistemology and metaphysics.

CO 4 – Know the meaning of the word ‘Nyaya’. Understand the Nyaya system and different kind of Pramanas. Know about the definition, classification and nature of perception. Know about the definition, constituents and knowledge of Anumana.

CO 5 – Know the meaning of the term ‘Vaisesika’. Understand the different categories of Vaisesika philosophy.

CO 6 – Know about Advaita philosophy of Sankara. Understand about the doctrine of Maya. Overview and critical appraisal of Brahmana.

Western Epistemology and Metaphysics

 

 CC – 2  6 CO 1– Understand the meaning of Western Philosophy, nature and its different branches.

CO 2- Understand the concept of Empiricism. Know the propositional knowledge, classification, necessary and sufficient conditions.

CO 3- Know theories of the origin of Empiricist Knowledge and views.

CO 4- Know the theories of the origin of Rationalist knowledge and views.

CO 5- Understand Realism, Subjective Idealism, Causality, Regularity theory.

CO 6- Understand Causal relation- Aristotelian view, Rationalist view-Entailment theory.

CO 7- Understand the Mind-body problem, Parallelism theory and the Identity theory. Know Mind-body relation-Interactionism and its criticism.

The Western Logic                              CC – 3 6 CO 1 – Understand Deductive Logic-Subject matter, Utility of studying logic.                                   

CO 2 – Know Proposition and its constituent parts.

CO 3 – Know the Difference between proposition & sentence, truth & validity,

CO 4 – Know Aristotelian classification of Categorical proposition and four-fold scheme.

CO 5 – Understand Argument /Inference and its constituent parts.

 

The Western Logic                              CC – 3 6 CO 6 – Know types of argument:  Deductive & Inductive Argument and differences.

CO 7 – Understand of transformation of grammatical sentences into logical form.

CO 8 – Know about opposition of proposition.

CO 9 – Understand the terms Immediate inference, Conversion, Obversion and Contraposition and application.

CO 10 – Understand square of proposition, Existential import-Boolean interpretation of categorical syllogism, Venn diagram.

The Philosophy of Mind CC – 4 6 CO 1 – Students Know definition and attributes of sensation.

CO 2 – Know Perception-definition, relation between sensation & perception.

CO 3 – Understand conscious, sub- conscious, unconscious level of mind.

CO 4 – Understand Gestalt theory of Perception and Freud’s theory of dream.

CO 5 – Know Memory, factors of memory, laws of association, forgetfulness, causes of forgetting.

CO 6 – Know the definition of learning.

CO 7 – Understand The Trial & Error theory.

CO 8 – Understand Pavlov’s Conditioned Response theory & Gestalt’s Insight theory of learning.

CO 9– Understand Intelligence and measurement of intelligence.

CO 10 – Know I.Q. Test of intelligence-Binet-Simon test.

Ethics: Indian and Western

 

DSE-A 6 CO 1 – Ethics is a branch of Philosophy which seeks to address issues related to concepts of right and wrong. It deals with moral principles and social values. It helps students to do good things & avoid doing bad things.

CO 2 – Both Indian & Western Ethics are diagnostic tools that establishes moral standards and norms of behavior. It prescribes and suggests judgement on moral behavior. It expresses opinion & attitudes about human conduct.

CO3-Studying Indian & Western Ethics improves students to evaluate the character of persons & consider its virtuousness & viciousness; it also evaluate the voluntary & habitual actions of persons & consider its rightness and wrongness. Motive, intention, purpose and choice are considered right or

wrong. Ethics (both Indian & Western) provides training to our students that the morality of an action depends upon inner motive & intention rather than upon its overt action or consequence.

Ethics: Indian and Western

 

DSE-A 6 CO 4 – It seeks to teach our students how they can pass correct judgements upon human conduct with reference to the supreme ideal (viz. Truth, Beauty and Good) of human life. Ethics may, therefore, be defined as the Normative Science. Normative Sciences seek to determine Norms, Ideals or Standers. It teaches our students to know what is right in human action in the pursuit of Good. As Ethics is not concerned with human conduct as it is but as it ought to be, so it is concerned with “judgement of value”.

CO 5 – Man is a social being, he cannot live apart from society. From this course, our students learn that an individual imbibes his notions of right and wrong, good and evil, from the customs & manners prevailing in a society. A human being apart from a society is an abstraction. Again social progress depends upon the moral individuals. Thus the individual and the society influence each other.

CO 6 – Social philosophy investigates the habits, manners, customs & institutions of human society in all its stages of development from the savage state to the civilized. It studies the origin, growth and development social groups through modification of customs and institutions. Students who learn social philosophy get a great many benefits from it.

CO 7 – Social philosophy is a purely theoretical science, it is also an objective mental science which studies objective mental products, e.g., customs, manners, laws, institutions, etc. These are the benefits of studying social philosophy.

CO 8 – It provides intellectual resources of our students, critical & creative thinking capacity that are indispensable for success.

CO 9 – Politics describes the structure & functions of government, it seeks to prescribe laws and regulate the conduct of individuals with a view to realizing public good or utility. Man is always a member of some political organization. From this course, our students learn that politics aims at welfare of the public & political laws are enforced by threats of punishment, the infringement of political laws is met with punishment. Political laws are externally imposed by the State. This course teaches that political law can control the external acts of men.

Social and Political Philosophy

A.a) Logical Reasoning and Application

 

 

 

 

 

A.b) BUSINESS ETHICS

SEC 2 CO 1 – Students know the main object of logical reasoning.

CO 2 – Students learn to identify and evaluate deductive and inductive arguments.

CO 3 – Students can develop their cognitive level.

CO 4 – Students understand Hetvabhas and can detection of Hetvabhas.

CO 5 – Students understand inductive and deductive reasoning in law.

CO 1 – This course helps them to understand that business is an integral part of human society and should be subjected to moral rules and moral evaluation. It implies that businesses are expected to reflect honesty across business activities. It teaches that business ethics caters to all stakeholders that directly or indirectly influence a business operations, distribution, services, company’s image, pricing and quality of products & services. Stakeholders include customers, employees, shareholders, creditors, environment, community and owners of a business.

CO 2 – This course helps them to understand the importance of business ethics like 1. Creation of goodwill, 2.motivation to employee, 3.creating credibility, 4.long term gain, 5.social security, 6. Improved decision making, 7.enhance partnership, 8.unity of staff and leadership, 9.satisfying basic human needs, 10.investment decision, 11.limited resources, 12.cost and risk reduction etc.

CO 3 – Studying business ethics provides the knowledge among students that it is acting as a safeguarding consumers’ right, it helps to create a good image for the businessmen and business both, it helps to generate consumer satisfaction, it signifies the importance of labor, it initiates a healthy competition etc.

B. a) Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Religion

 

DSE – B 2 CO 1 – Applied Ethics examines controversial issues such as euthanasia, abortion, the killing of animals, famine, affluence and morality, environmental ethics etc. & applies ethical theories to real life situations. They are ethical issues of current concern about which any active participant in our society’s decision-making process needs to reflect. Some issues are relevant as well as controversial largely because there are facts in dispute.

CO 2 – This course provides our students the ability to think critically, to analyze & solve problems.

 

B. a) Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Religion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B. b) Contemporary Indian Thought

 

 

 

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2 CO 3 – Applied Ethics indirectly exerts a paramount influence on all departments of our practical life. The right solution of the vital problems of religion, politics, economics, legislature, education etc. depends upon the correct notions of right & wrong. It teaches our students that, divorced from morality, Religion degenerates into superstitious belief in blind superhuman power, black magic & the like. Politics should be moulded by ethics, immoral laws should be abolished. Laws should be enacted for the improvement of the moral well- being of the people. Economics should be based on ethics-

production, distribution and consumption of wealth should be based on justice and equity. Our students also learn from this course that in education, what impulses and dispositions in children should be strengthened and what should be suppressed. Thus, studying this course, our students learn that ethics (both theoretical & practical) should embrace all departments of human action, exert an elevating influence upon them, and raise humanity to a higher level.

CO 4 – Philosophy of Religion is a philosophical inquiry into the nature, function, value and truth of religious experience. From this course, our students learn that the first business of Philosophy of Religion is to study the phenomenology of Religion. Now this phenomena may be studied from two points of view: 1. From the point of view of the inner or subjective experience of the religious consciousness (the psychology point of view); 2. From the standpoint of religious experience as externalized in rites, institutions, events, myths, creeds, theologies (the historical point of view). It provides that these two points of view cannot be kept absolutely apart, for subjective and the objective aspects of experience are ever intimately interwined in the unity of life.

CO 5 – Our student also learn from this course that religious beliefs, doctrines ,creeds are amazingly varied in character, but Philosophy of Religion has its own contribution to make to the discovery and exposition of the most adequate form of religious belief. They learn that in the religious consciousness all sides of the whole personality participate, and not the reason alone.

CO 1 The study of Contemporary Indian Philosophy seeks to highlight that the basic aim of Philosophy is to cultivate a world-view.

CO 2 – This Philosophy has arisen in awareness of the need to reconcile the forces of tradition with those of modernity.

 

B. b) Contemporary Indian Thought

 

CO 3 – The present study requires an awareness of the existential condition of life as also the consciousness of life’s ultimate ideal, viz., redemption, not only of the individual, but of the total human race. It provides information regarding the ultimacy of spiritual values.

CO 4 –  It is an attempt to re-think, in an academic manner, the thoughts of the contemporary thinkers, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, S. Radhakrishnan, and Mohammad Iqbal. Different aspects of their thoughts have been systematized, categorized and placed under suitable philosophical heads in this course.

Indian thinkers are true to their tradition, but attempts have not been made to highlight such constructive aspects of their thought that bear the mark of original thinking and insight. Their attitude towards tradition is ‘reverential’, their thoughts are sources for inspiration. The Philosophy that they produce becomes a kind of moon-light philosophy. Therefore, what is needed is to re-think the thoughts of the contemporary Indian th inkers. This course serves that purpose in its own modest way.

CO 5 – In India, today there are two distinct currents of philosophical activities flowing almost side by side. One is the kind of philosophy in which both the intellectuals and the general people take interest, and the other is the kind of philosophical activity that is purely academic and somewhat professorial. This course tries to develop a comprehensive view of the philosophical activities that are being pursued in the universities of India by the teachers and students of Philosophy.

B/a. Man and Environment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B/b. Value Education

 

SEC CO 1 – Understand the classical Indian attitude of Environment and ways of addressing them including Upanisadic world view concept.

CO 2 – Understand key concepts the attitude of respect for nature.

CO 3 – Understand the intrinsic value of nature. Intrinsic value reflects the perspective that nature has value in its own right. Moor, Chilsom etc. know their views in this context.

CO 4 – Understand the meaning of Eco-feminism. Know the relationship between women and the earth.

CO 1– Value education gives a positive direction to the students to shape their future and even helps them to know the purpose of their life.

CO 2 – It teaches them the best way to live that can be beneficial to individuals as well as the people around them.

CO 3 – Value education also helps the students to become more and more responsible and sensible.

CO 4 – It helps them to understand the perspective of life in a better way and lead a successful life as a responsible citizen.

CO 5 – It also helps students to develop a strong relationship with family and friends.

CO 6 – It develops the character and personality of the students.

CO 7 – Value education develops a positive view of life in the student’s mind.