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UGC NET Philosophy Exam Overview 2024

Particulars	Details
Name of the Exam	National Eligibility Test (NET)
Conducting Body	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Frequency of the Exam	Twice a Year
Mode of Examination	Online
Type of Questions	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Number of Papers	Paper I Paper-II
Number of Questions	150
Time Duration	3 hours
Negative Marking	No
Official Website	ugcnet.nta.ni
Subject	Philosophy

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UGC NET Philosophy Exam Overview 2024
What is the Latest Syllabus of UGC NET Philosophy 2024 ?
UGC NET Study Tips UGC NET Philosophy How to Crack UGC NET Philosophy in First Attempt-
UGC NET Philosophy 4-Month Preparation Plan 2024
Frequently Asked Question Philosophy (FAQ)

Units/Subject Name	Process link to Reading
Unit – 1: Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit-2: Classical Western: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Epistemology and Metaphysics	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit – 3: Indian Ethics	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit – 4: Western Ethics	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit- 5: Contemporary Indian Philosophy	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit-6: Recent Western Philosophy	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit- 7: Social and Political Philosophy: Indian	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit- 8: Social and Political Philosophy: Western	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit- 9: Logic	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Unit- 10: Applied Philosophy	https://wa.link/9deeb8
Total Units – 10	Contact Us -7310762592.7078549303

What is the Latest Syllabus of UGC NET Philosophy 2024 ?

Subject/Unit Name	Topics /Subjects
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, relationship between puruṣa and prakṛti, atheism.  Yoga: Pataῆjali’s Theory of Pramāṇa, the concept of ćitta and ćitta – vṛtti, stages of ćittbhumi, 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, the 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.
Unit-2: Classical Western: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern :	Epistemology and Metaphysics Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, 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 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, the 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 solipsism; 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 judgments, the possibility of synthetic a prior 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.
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
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, 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
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, 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
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, the notion of philosophy, Wittgensteinian Fideism, On Certainty. Gilbert Ryle: Systematically misleading expressions, category mistake, the 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 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 Post-Modernism: Nietzsche: Critique of Enlightenment, Will to Power, Genealogy of Moral Richard Rorty: Critique of representationalism, Against Epistemological method, Edifying Philosophy Immanuel Levinas: Ethics as first philosophy, Philosophy of ‘other’
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
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; the conception of Minority Rights Feminism: Basic Concepts: Patriarchy, misogyny, Gender, Theories of Feminism; Liberal, Socialist, radical and eco-feminism
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
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 Media Ethics: ethical issues in Privacy, cyber space, pornography, representation and differences-marginalization Legal Ethics: law and morality, Legal Obligation, Authority and Validity of Law Philosophical Counseling: Managing everyday problems
Total Units	10

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First, it tells you that only multiple-choice questions are asked in the UGC NET Home Science exam, so there is no point preparing for subjective answers of 5-10 lines. Your preparation needs to be objective oriented. You will have to allot more time to learn specific details and not whole paras.
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Work towards time management: From the above tip you must have known by now that you get only 3 hours to complete 150 MCQs without any break. That can be tough for those who are not good in managing time.
For getting a better hand over completing the paper on time, you will need to solve old UGC NET History question papers. The more you practice, the more you will get used to handling the questions in time. You should use a stopwatch to calculate your speed and time.
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Revision is the secret recipe: Revision is the final touch that you give to your exam preparation to make your foundation more and more concrete. It is very important to revise what you have been studying all along so that you are confident of the syllabus in general and each topic in particular.The best way to revise is to take mock tests and solve practice papers that can be found online and even in bookstores.
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Another important tip is that you should always start your revision with sections that are relatively tougher for you so that they also change to stronger topics in time.
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UGC NET Philosophy 4-Month Preparation Plan 2024

This gives you 4 months to prepare for the examination. Now we are fully aware of the fact that a single timetable cannot suit everyone’s preference. So, being mindful of that, we have prepared you a standard plan which you can modify as per your Schedule and daily schedule.

Preparation Time	4 Months (16 Weeks)
Total Chapters/ Topics to Prepare	10
Total Sub-Topics	Over 80 +
Studying Hours Per Day	4 – 5 Hours
Number of Days Required to Prepare Each Unit	10 Days
Number of Chapters Completed in a Month	2 Chapters
Break Days or Extra Days Each Month	2 – 3 Days*
Time Taken to Complete Entire Syllabus	3.5 Months
Remaining Time	15 Days
Days to Solve Sample Papers/ Model Papers/ Mock Tests	20 Days
Days Left for Final Revision	15 Days

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