PHILOSOPHY CSS SYLLABUS (100 MARKS)
I. Introduction
- Definition
- Nature
- Scope of Philosophy
II. Philosophical Methods
- Socratic Method (Socrates)
- Inductive Method (Bacon, Mill)
- Deductive Method (Aristotle, Descartes)
- Dialectical Method (Hegel)
- Fallibilistic Method (Popper)
III. Epistemology
- Rationalism (Plato, Descartes, Spinoza)
- Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
- Transcendentalism (Kant)
- Intuitionism (Bergson)
IV. Ontology
- Idealism (Plato, Berkeley)
- Representative Realism (Locke)
- Historical and Dialectical Materialism (Marx)
V. Ethics
- What is morality?
- The challenge of cultural relativism
- Does morality depend on religion?
- Psychological and ethical egoism
- Virtue Ethics (Aristotle)
- Moral Absolutism (Kant)
- Utilitarianism (J.S. Mill)
- Social Contract Theory (Hobbes, Rawls)
VI. Muslim Thinkers
- Al-Farabi
- Ibn Sina
- Al-Ghazali
- Ibn Rushid
- Ibn Khaldun
- Shah Waliullah
- Muhammad Iqbal
VII. Contemporary Philosophical Movements
- Existentialism (Heidegger, Sartre)
- Pragmatism (Peirce, James, Dewey)
- Neo-pragmatism (Rorty)
- Postmodernism (Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida)
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