DSC-1B: FUNDAMENTALS OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Objective: This paper intends to acquaint the students with basic ideas o philosophy concerning concepts and theories of knowledge, truth, reality and values

Unit-I

    1. Philosophy: Nature, Scope and Value

    2, Theories of the Origin of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism and Kant;s 

        Critical Theory

Unit-II

    1. Realism: Naive Realism and Scientific Realism

    2. Idealism: Subjective and Objective Idealism

Unit-III

    1. Categories of Knowledge: Space, Time, Substance, Causality

    2. Theories of Truth: Correspondence, Coherence and Pragmatic Theory

Unit-IV

    1. Theories of Reality: Monism, Dualism and Pluralism

    2. Value: Nature and Kinds, Intrinsic and Extrinsic, Subjective and Objective, (part-1)

        Absolute and Relative   (part-2)