West Bengal Public Service Commission Syllabus for Mains 2021

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The Public Service Commission, West Bengal or PSCWB is the state agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of state of West Bengal in India. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for WBPSC Mains Optional Paper - Philosophy.

West Bengal PSC Syllabus

WBPSC Optional Paper - Philosophy

Paper – I

Problems of Philosophy (European and Indian)

  1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas, Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.
  2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Determinism and Freedom.
  3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism.
  4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori judgments; Space and Time; Categories.
  5. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein : Defence of Common sense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Picture Theory of Meaning.
  6. Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics.
  7. Cârvâka: Theory of Knowledge; Metaphysics and Ethics.
  8. Jainism: Anekântavâda,; Saptabhanginaya.
  9. Buddhism: Four Noble Truths; Pratîtyasamutpâda, Kşaņikavâda, Nairâtmyavâda.
  10. Nyâya – Vaiśesika : Theory of Categories; Theory of Pramâna; Self; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
  11. Sâmkhya: Prakŗti; Puruşa; Causation; Theory of Evolution.
  12. Yoga: Citta; Cittavŗtti.
  13. Mîmâmsâ: Epistemology; Theory of Validity.
  14. Vedânta : Views of Śamkara and Râmânuja on Brahman; Îśvara; Âtman; Jîva; Jagat; Mâyâ; Avidyâ; Adhyâsa.
  15. Swâmi Vivekânanda: Practical Vedânta.
  16. Sri Aurobindo: Evolution; Involution; Integral Yoga. 17. Rabindranath Tagore: Nature of Man; Surplus in Man.

Paper – II:

Socio – Political Philosophy and Psychology

  1. Social and Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty: Views of Mill, Locke, Rawls.
  2. Individual and State: Rights, Duties and Accountability.
  3. Political Ideologies: Anarchism, Marxism, Socialism and Democracy.
  4. Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.
  5. Social Change: Gandhi, Ambedkar.
  6. Mind – Body Problem: Dualism, Philosophical Behaviourism, Person Theory of Strawson.
  7. Levels of Mind; Proofs for the existence of the unconscious; Freud’s theory of dream, citta, cittavŗtti (Yoga).

Ethics and Philosophy of Religion

  1. Standards of Morality: Utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Deontological Theories.
  2. Virtue Ethics: Aristotle.
  3. Human Rights and Discrimination.
  4. Feminism: Liberal and Radical.
  5. Environmental Ethics: Bio-centric ethics and Eco-centric ethics.
  6. Theories of Punishment; Capital Punishment.
  7. Terrorism and Just war.
  8. Indian Ethics : Puruşârtha, Concept of Liberation, Anuvrata and Mahâvrata (Jainism), Brahmavihâra (Buddhism).
  9. Proofs for the existence of God : Descartes, St. Anselm, Naiyâyikas.
  10. Religion without God, Religion and Morality.
  11. Religious Pluralism.
  12. Nature of Religious Language : Cognitive and Non-cognitive, Analogical and Symbolic.

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