Paper I — Western Philosophy
100 marks- Introduction: Nature and Value of Philosophy
- Greek Philosophers:
a) Plato: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge, Theory of State b) Aristotle: Metaphysics, Theory of Knowledge and Logic
- 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
- 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
Recommended reading
1 title- 01Brooke Noel Moore & Kenneth Bruder [2002] Philosophy: The Power of Ideas,
5 Edition, McGraw Hill, London.
- Bertrand Russell [2003] History of Western Philosophy, Routledge, London & New York.
- Roger Scruton [2002] A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge.
- Frederick Copleston [1993] History of Philosophy, Reprint edition, Image.
- Frank Thilly [1993] A History of Philosophy, Sabharwal Book Whole.
- Jean-Paul Sartre [1977] Existentialism & Humanism, M.S.G. House
- A.J. Ayer [1978] Logical Positivism, Greenwood Press
Paper II — Muslim Philosophy
100 marks- Genesis and Development of Theological and Philosophical Thought in Islam
- Muslim Theology:
a) Mutazilites: Five Principles, Naturalistic Ethics b) Asharites: Divine Attibutes, Createdness / Uncreatedness of the Quran, Human Freedom
- Sufisim:
a) Origin of Sufisim and its Characteristics b) Metaphysics: Wahdat al Wajud and Wahdat al Shuhud
- 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
- 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
- Contemporary Debates:
a) Religious Modernism b) Religious Fundamentalism c) Islamization of Knowledge
Recommended reading
9 titles- 01Seyyed Hossein Nasr & Oliver Leaman [1996] History of Islamic Philosophy, Vol. I & II, Routledge, London & New York.
- 02Majid Fakhari [2004] A History of Islamic Philosophy, 3 Edition, Columbia University Press, New York.
- 03M. M. Sharif [1996] A History of Muslim Philosophy Vol. I & II, Royal Book Company, Karachi.
- 04Abdul Khaliq [2000] Problems of Muslim Theology, Victory Book Bank, Lahore.
- 05Abdul Khaliq [1966] Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: On Nature, Man and God, Bazm-e-Iqbal, Lahore.
- 06J. M. S. Baldjon [1986] Religion and Thought of Shah Waliullah Dihlawi, Leidan: E.J. Brill.
- 07Mansoor Moaddel & Kamran Talattof [2002] Modernist and Fundamentalistd Debates in Islam, Palgrave Macmillan.
- 08Ismail Raji – al Faruqi [1988] Islamization of Knowledge: Problems, Principles and Prospective, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.
- 09Mustansir Mir [2006] Iqbal, Iqbal Academy, Pakistan.
Others in Group F
You may take one subject from this group, so these are alternatives to Philosophy, not companions to it.