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Here we have provided the latest UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2023 in Hindi and English.

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2023

National Testing Agency (NTA) releases the UGC NET syllabus along with the latest notification. UGC NET Syllabus for both paper-I and -II was revised by NTA in June 2019, no changes are likely to be made to this year’s NET syllabus.

The subject code for UGC NET Philosophy is 03. It comprises two online papers namely Paper-I & Paper-II with Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)s.

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Paper I 2023

UGC NET Syllabus for Philosophy Paper I tests the reasoning ability, reading comprehension, divergent thinking, and general awareness of the candidate.

UGC NET Philosophy Paper I syllabus will have 50 questions worth 100 marks. The Paper I syllabus has 10 units, and precisely 5 questions will be asked from each unit.

Go through the exam pattern of the UGC NET Philosophy Paper 1 syllabus mentioned below:

Topics	Questions	Marks
Part I: Teaching Aptitude	5	10
Part II: Research Aptitude	5	10
Part III: Reading Comprehension	5	10
Part IV: Communication	5	10
Part V: Reasoning (including Maths)	5	10
Part VI: Logical Reasoning	5	10
Part VII: Data Interpretation	5	10
Part VIII: Information & Communication Technology (ICT)	5	10
Part IX: People & Environment	5	10
Part X: Higher Education System: Governance, Polity & Administration	5	10
Total	50	100

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UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Paper II 2023 In English

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UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit 1: Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics

• Vedic and Upaniṣadic: Ṛta – the cosmic order, the divine and the human realms; the centrality of the institution of yajῆa (sacrifice), theories of creation Ātman – Self ( and not-self ), Jāgrat, Svapna, Susupti and turiya, Brahmaṇ.
• Cārvāka: Pratyakṣa as the only pramāṇa, critique of anumāna and śabda, Consciousness as epi-phenomenon.
• Jainism: Concept of reality – sat, dravya, guṇa, paryāya, Jiva, ajiva, anekāntavāda, syādvāda, and nayavāda; theory of knowledge.
• Buddhism: Four Noble Truths, Āstangika Mārga, Distinction between Brahmiṇic and Śraminic traditions. Pratityasamutpāda, kṣaṇabhahgavāda, anātmavāda. Schools of Buddhism : Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika, Yogacāra, Mādhyamika and Tibetan Buddhism.
• Nyāya : Pramā and apramā, Theories of pramāṇa: pratyakṣa, anumāna, upamana, śabda. Hetvabhāsa. Concept of God. Debate between Buddhism and Nyāya about Pramāṇa-Vyavasthā and Pramāṇa Samplava. Anyathākhyati.
• Vaiśeṣika : Concept of padārtha and its kinds, Asatkāryavāda, Kinds of Kāraṇa: samavāyi, asamavāyi, and nimitta kāraṇa, paramaṇukaraṇavāda.
• Sāṃkhya: Satkāryavāda, prakṛti, and its evolutes, arguments for the existence of prakṛti, nature of puruṣa, arguments for the existence and plurality of puruṣa, the relationship between puruṣa and prakṛti, atheism.
• Yoga: Pataῆjali’s Theory of Pramāṇa, the concept of ćitta and ćitta – vṛtti, stages of ćitt-bhumi, the role of God in Yoga.
• Purva – Mimāṃsā : Pramāṇyavāda: Svatah-pramāṇyavāda and Paratah-pramāṇyavada, Śruti and its importance, classification of śruti-vākyas, vidhi, niṣedha and arthavāda, dharma, bhāvanā, śabda-nityavāda, Jāti, śaktivada; Kumārila and Prabhākara Schools of Mimāṃsa and their major points of difference, triputi – samvit, jῆatatā, abhāva and anupalabdhi, anvitadbhidhanavāda, abhihitanvayavāda, Theories of error: Akhyāti, Viparitakhyāti, atheism.
• Vedānta:
• Advaita : Brahmaṇ, relation between Brahmaṇ and Ātman, three grades of sattā,
  Adhyāsa, māya, Jiva, Vivartavāda, Anirvachniya-khyāti.
• Viśiṣtādvaita : Saguṇa Brahmaṇ, refutation of māya, aprthaksiddhi pariṇāmavāda, Jiva,
  bhakti and prapatti, Brahma-Pariṇāmavāda, Sat-khyāti.
• Dvaita: Rejection of nirguṇa brahmaṇ and māya, bheda and sāksi, bhakti.
• Dvaitavaita: Concept of Jῆānaswaroop, kinds of inanimate
• Sudhadvaita: Concept of Avikrta-pariṇāmavāda

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit-2: Classical Western: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern : Epistemology and Metaphysics

• Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenies, Ionians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Democritus,
• The Sophists and Socrates
• Plato and Aristotle:
  • Plato – Theory of knowledge, knowledge, and opinion, theory of Ideas, the method of
    dialectic, soul, and God.
  • Aristotle – Classification of the sciences, the theoretical, the practical and the
    productive, logic as an organon, critique of Plato’s theory of Ideas, theory of causation,
    form and matter, potentiality and actuality, soul and God.
• Medieval Philosophy
• St. Augustine: Problem of Evil.
• St. Anselm: Ontological argument.
• St. Thomas Aquinas: Faith and Reason, Essence and Existence, the Existence of God.
• Modern Western Philosophy:
• Descartes : Conception of the method , Criteria of truth, doubt, and methodological
  scepticism, cogito ergo sum, innate ideas, Cartesian dualism: mind and matter, proofs
  for the existence of God, interactionism
• Spinoza: Substance, Attribute, and Mode, the concept of ‘God or Nature’, Intellectual
  love of God, parallelism, pantheism, three orders of knowing
• Leibnitz: Monadology, truths of reason and fact, innateness of ideas, proofs for the
  existence of God, principles of non – contradiction, sufficient reason, and identity of
  indiscernibles, the doctrine of pre -established harmony, the problem of freedom
• Locke: Ideas and their classification, refutation of innate ideas, theory of substance,
  the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, theory of knowledge, three grades
  of knowledge.
• Berkeley: Rejection of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities,
  immaterialism, critique of abstract ideas, esse est percipi, the problem of solipcism; God
  and self.
• Hume: Impressions and ideas, knowledge concerning relations of ideas and knowledge
  concerning matters of fact, induction and causality, the external world and the self,
  personal identity, rejection of metaphysics, scepticism, reason, and the passions
• Kant: The critical philosophy, classification of judgements, the possibility of synthetic a
  priori judgements, the Copernican revolution, forms of sensibility, categories of
  understanding, the metaphysical and the transcendental deduction of the categories,
  phenomenon and noumenon, the Ideas of Reason – soul, God and world as a whole,
  rejection of speculative metaphysics.
• Hegel: The conception of Geist (spirit), the dialectical method, concepts of being, non –
  being and becoming, absolute idealism, Freedom.

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit 3: Indian Ethics

• Concept of Purusārtha, Śreyas, and Preyas
• Varṇāshrama, Dharma, Sādhāraṇa Dharma
• Ṛna and yajῆa, Concept of duty
• Karma-yoga, Sthitprajῆa, Svadharma, Lokasaṃgraha
• Apurva and Adṛṣta
• Sādhya-Sādhana, Itikartavyata
• Law of Karma: ethical implications
• Ṛta and Satya
• Yoga-kśema
• Astānga Yoga
• Jainism: Samvara-nirjarā, Tri-ratṇa, Panch-vrata
• Buddhism: Upāya-Kaushal, Brahma-vihāra: matri, karuṇā, muditā, upeksha, bodhisattva
• Carvaka’s Hedonism

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit 4: Western Ethics

• Concepts of Good, right, justice, duty, obligation, cardinal virtues, Eudaemonism,
  Intuition as explained in Teleological and Deontological Theories.
• Egoism, Altruism, Universalism
• Subjectivism, Cultural Relativism, Super-naturalism
• Ethical realism and Intuitionism,
• Kant’s moral theory: Postulates of morality, Good-will, Categorical Imperative, Duty,
  Mean and ends, Maxims
• Utilitarianism: principle of utility, the problem of sanction and justification of morality, kinds
  of utilitarianism, Moral theories of Bentham, J. S. Mill, Sidgwick
• Theories of Punishment
• Ethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism: Emotivism, Prescriptivism, Descriptivism

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit- 5: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

• Vivekananda: Practical Vedanta, Universal Religion, Religious Experience, Religious Rituals
• Sri Aurobindo: Evolution, mind and supermind, Integral Yoga
• Iqbal: Self, God, man and superman, Intellect and Intuition
• Tagore: Religion of man, ideas on education, Concept of Nationalism
• K. C. Bhattacharyya: Swaraj in ideas, Concept of Philosophy, subject as Freedom, the doctrine of Maya.
• Radhakrishnan: Intellect and intuition, the Idealist view of life, the concept of Universal Religion, Hindu view of life.
• J. Krishnamurti: Conception of thought, Freedom from the known, analysis of self, Choiceless awareness
• Gandhi: Truth, Non-violence, satyagraha, swaraj, critique of modern civilization.
• Ambedkar: Annihilation of caste, philosophy of Hinduism, Neo-Buddhism
• D.D. Upadhyaya: Integral Humanism, Advaita Vedanta, Purusartha
• Narayana Guru: the spiritual freedom and social equality, one caste, one religion, one God.
• Tiruvallur: Tirukkural
• Jyotiba Phule: Critical understanding of Caste-system.
• M.N.Roy: Radical Humanism, Materialism
• Maulana Azad: Humanism

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit-6: Recent Western Philosophy

• Analytic and Continental Philosophy:
  • Frege: Sense and Reference
  • Logical Positivism: Verification theory of meaning, Elimination of metaphysics, the concept of
  • Philosophy
  • Moore: Distinction between Sense and Reference, Refutation of Idealism, Defense of commonsense, Proof of an External World.
  • Russell: Logical Atomism, Definite Descriptions, Refutation of Idealism
  • Wittgenstein: Language and Reality, Facts and objects, names and propositions, the picture theory, critique of private language, meaning and use, forms of life, notion of philosophy, Wittgensteinian Fideism, On Certainty.
  • Gilbert Ryle: Systematically misleading expressions, category mistake, concept of mind, critique of Cartesian dualism
  • A. J. Ayer: The Problem of Knowledge
  • W.V.O. Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
  • H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson: In Defense of a dogma
• Phenomenology and Existentialism:
  • Husserl: Phenomenological Method, Philosophy as a rigorous science, Intentionality, Phenomenological Reduction, Inter-subjectivity
  • Heidegger: The concept of Being (Dasein), Man as being in the world, critique of technological civilization
  • Kierkegaard: Subjectivity as Truth, Leap of faith
  • Sartre: Concept of Freedom, Bad-faith, Humanism
  • Morleau-Ponty: Perception, Embodied Consciousness
• Pragmatism:
  • William James: Pragmatic Theories of Meaning and Truth, Varieties of Religious experience
  • John Dewey: Concept of Truth, Common-faith, education

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit- 7: Social and Political Philosophy: Indian

• Mahabharata: Danda-niti, foundations, Rajdharma, Law and Governance, Narada’s Questions to King Yudhisthir
• Kautilya: Sovereignty, Seven Pillars of State-craft, State, Society, Social-life, State administration, State economy, law and justice, internal security, welfare and external affairs
• Kamandaki: Social order and State elements Constitutional Morality, Secularism and Fundamental Rights
• Constitutionalism, Total revolution, terrorism, Swadeshi, Satyagrah, Sarvodaya, Social Democracy, State Socialism, Affirmative Action, Social Justice
• Social Institutions: Family, Marriage, property, education and religion
• Colonialism

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit- 8: Social and Political Philosophy: Western

• Plato: Ideal State and Justice
• Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau: Social Contract Theory
• Isaiah Berlin: Conceptions of Liberty
• Bernard Williams: Idea of Equality
• Liberalism: Rawls; Distributive justice, Nozick; Justice as Entitlement, Dworkin; Justice as equality; Amartya Sen: Global Justice, Freedom and Capability.
• Marxism: Dialectical Materialism, Alienation, Critique of Capitalism, Doctrine of Class Struggle and Classless Society.
• Communitarianism: Communitarian critique of liberal self, Universalism Vs. Particularism, Theory of Charles Taylor, MacIntyre, Michael Sandel
• Multiculturalism: Charles Taylor; Politics of recognition, Will Kymlicka; conception of Minority Rights
• Feminism: Basic Concepts: Patriarchy, misogyny, Gender, Theories of Feminism; Liberal, Socialist, radical and eco-feminism

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit- 9: Logic

• Truth and Validity
• Denotation and Connotation
• Nature of Propositions
• Categorical Syllogism
• Laws of thought
• Classification of Propositions
• Square of Opposition
• Truth-Functions and Propositional Logic
• Quantification and Rules of Quantification
• Symbolic Logic: Use of symbols
• Decision Procedures: Truth Table, Using Truth- Tables for testing the validity of arguments
• Venn Diagram, informal and formal Fallacies
• Proving Validity, Argument and Argument-form
• Axiomatic System, Consistency, Completeness
• Differences between Deductive and Inductive Logic

UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Unit- 10: Applied Philosophy

• What is applied Philosophy?
• Philosophy of Technology; technology, dominance, power and social inequalities
• Democratization of Technology
• Public evaluation of science and technology
• Ethical Implication of information technology, bio-technology, non-technology
• Environmental Ethics: Nature as means or end, Aldo-Leopold; land-ethics,
• Arne Naess: Deep Ecology, Peter Singer; Animal Rights
• Medical-Ethics: Surrogacy, Doctor-patient relationship, abortion, euthanasia, female-infanticide
• Professional Ethics: Corporate Governance and ethical responsibility

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UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus For Paper II 2023 In Hindi

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UGC NET Philosophy Old Syllabus

The UGC NET examination old syllabus was applicable till December 2018. You can download it in pdf format from the following link.

Kindly note that this syllabus is considered outdated and now not applicable for the upcoming UGC NET examination in Philosophy.

You can use it only for your reference purpose.

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UGC NET Philosophy Exam Pattern 2023

UGC NET Philosophy Exam has two papers, i.e., Paper 1 and Paper 2.

Here you can know the facts about UGC NET Philosophy Exam 2023

Particulars	UGC NET Paper-I Overview	UGC NET Paper-II Overview
Exam mode	Online	Online
Exam duration	3 hours (180 minutes)
Type of paper	Common for all candidates	Subject-specific questions
Total questions	50	100
Type of questions	MCQs; 4 options with only 1 correct option	MCQs; 4 options with only 1 correct option
Total marks	100	200
Marking scheme	2 marks for the correct answer 0 for an incorrect answer	2 marks for the correct answer 0 for an incorrect answer
Language of paper	English and Hindi	English and Hindi

Important Points About UGC NET Philosophy Exam Pattern:

Benefits Of Latest NTA UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus 2023

For any preparation to be successful, knowing the syllabus and exam pattern is essential. You can definitely score more with the proper use of the UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus.

Some notable benefits from the new NTA UGC NET Philosophy 22 Syllabus are as below:

• NTA UGC NET Philosophy Syllabus describes the topics and concepts to be covered while preparing for the examinations.
• NTA UGC NET Syllabus for Philosophy also mentions the weightage allotted to different units and chapters, knowing which you may form a strategy for preparing for chapters with high or low weightage.
• Question paper design/format is also explained in a syllabus that lets students know about the questions asked and various sections employed in the exam papers. It also gives an idea about the marks distribution in the paper.
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