PMS Syllabus for the Subject of Philosophy Papers

Punjab Public Service Commission Lahore PMS Syllabus for the Subject of philosophy Papers Combined Competitive Examination. PMS philosophy Syllabus, PMS Syllabus philosophy download pdf.

Paper – I

Total Marks: 100

Western Philosophy

1. Introduction: Nature and Value of Philosophy

2. Greek Philosophers:
a) Plato: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of State
b) Aristotle: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge and Logic

3. Modern Philosophers:
a) Descartes: Doubt as a key to certainty, Dualism
b) Spinoza: Doctorine of substance, Ethics
c) Locke: Representative Realism
d) Berkeley: Subjective Idealism
e) Hume: Skepticism
f) Kant: Transcendental Idealism
g) Hegel: Dialectical Method, Absolute Idealism
h) Nietzsche: Superman, Will to Power

4. Contemporary Philosophical Movements:
a) Existentialism: Jean Paul Sartre
b) Logical Positivism: Criterion of Verifiability, Refutation of Metaphysics
c) Neo-Pragmatism: Richard Rorty: Objectivity, Relativism and Truth

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Paper – II

Total Marks: 100

Muslim Philosophy

1. Genesis and Development of Theological and Philosophical Thought in Islam

2. Muslim Theology
:
a) Mutazilites: Five Principles, Naturalistic Ethics
b) Asharites: Divine Attibutes, Createdness / Uncreatedness of the Quran, Human Freedom

3. Sufisim:
a) Origin of Sufisim and its Characteristics
b) Metaphysics: Wahdat al Wajud and Wahdat al Shuhud

4. Muslim Philosophers:
a) Ibn Sina: Concept of Being, Doctrine of Emanation, Psychology
b) Al Ghazali: Method, Refutation of Philosophers
c) Ibn Rushd: Reconciliation between Philosophy and Religion, Theory of Knowledge
d) Ibn Khaldun: Concept of History, Refutation of Metaphysics

5. Modern Reconstructionists of Islamic Thought:
a) Shah Waliullah: Metaphysics, Social Philosophy
b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: God, Man and Universe, Concept of Religion and Ethics
c) Allama Muhammad Iqbal: Epistemology, Doctrine of Ego, Concept of Ijtehad

6. Contemporary Debates:
a) Religious Modernism
b) Religious Fundamentalism
c) Islamization of Knowledge

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