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  • 20 Revision-Through-PYQ Lectures of Complete Syllabus.
  • Tests
    • 6 Sectional Tests
    • 2 Comprehensive Tests
  • 6 Detailed Classroom/Live Test Discussion Classes.
  • Personal Mentoring and Handholding.
  • Timely and Multi-level Evaluation within 7 days.
  • Flexible Submission of the Tests.
  • Mode: Live /Online / Offline
  • ‘20-Lectures-Booster’ is designed to kick-start the optional preparation and to facilitate and speed-up first revision before prelims result comes
  • It includes comprehensive Revision of the Mains Syllabus with a Focus on Covering Micro Issues and value Addition to Content in shortest possible time
  • Covering Last 10 years’ UPSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) through lectures, followed by test series
  • Test series will help you improve Answer Writing Approach & Skills through Evaluation and Feedback.
  • Will also help you bring in philosophical approach and technical language in answers.
  • Special focus on the use of keywords, key statements in answers.
  • Enrich answers through interlinking of Philosophers.

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Philosophy Booster Course Schedule 
LectureDateSyllabus
Lecture # 0105-06-2023Introduction to the Course
Charvaka, Jainism
Lecture # 0206-06-2023Buddhism
Lecture # 0307-06-2023Samkhya, Yoga
Lecture # 0408-06-2023Nyaya Vais'esika, Mimamsa
Lecture # 0509-06-2023Vedanta, Aurobindo
Lecture # 0612-06-2023Plato, Aristotle
Lecture # 0713-06-2023Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
Lecture # 0814-06-2023Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Lecture # 0915-06-2023Kant, Hegel
Lecture # 1016-06-2023Moore, Russell, Early Wittgenstein,
Logical Positivism, Later Wittgenstein
Lecture # 1119-06-2023Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre
Heidegger
Lecture # 1220-06-2023Quine, Srawson
Lecture # 1321-06-2023Notions of God
Proofs for the Existence Problem of Evil
Soul
Lecture # 1422-06-2023Reason, Revelation & Faith. Religious Experience Religion without God
Religion and Morality
Lecture # 1523-06-2023Religious Pluralism
Nature of Religious Language
Lecture # 1626-06-2023Social and Political Ideals
Lecture # 1727-06-2023Sovereignty
Individual and State
Lecture # 1828-06-2023Forms of Government, Political Ideologies
Lecture # 1929-06-2023Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism
Crime and Punishment
Lecture # 2030-06-2023Development and Social Progress
Gender Discrimination, Caste Discrimination
Test No.DateTopics
Test 111-06-2023Indian Philosophy (1st half):
1. Ca-rva-ka: Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent Entities.
2. Jainism: Theory of Reality; Saptabhan (ginaya; Bondage and Liberation.
3. Schools of Buddhism: Prati-tyasamutpa-da; Ksanikavada, Naira-tmyava-da
4. Sa-mkhya: Prakrti; Purusa; Causation; Liberation
5. Yoga: Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.
Test 225-06-2023Western Philosophy (1st half):
1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.
2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.
3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism.
4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God
5. Hegel: Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism
Test 309-07-2023Indian Philosophy (2nd half):
6. Nya-ya- Vais'esika: Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance; Theory of Prama-na; Self, Liberation; God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
7. Mima-msa-: Theory of Knowledge
8. Schools of Veda-nta: Brahman; I-s'vara; A-tman; Jiva; Jagat; Ma-ya-; Avidya-; Adhya-sa; Moksa; Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda
9. Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.
Test 423-07-2023Western Philosophy (2nd half):
6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein: Defence of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing.
7. Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.
8. Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of Private Language.
9. Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism.
10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Existence and Essence; Choice, Responsibility and Authentic Existence; Being-in-the –world and Temporality.
11. Quine and Strawson: Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars and Persons.
Test 506-08-2023Socio Political Philosophy:
1. Social and Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty.
2. Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.
3. Individual and State: Rights; Duties and Accountability
4. Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.
5. Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism
6. Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.
7. Crime and Punishment: Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment.
8. Development and Social Progress.
9. Gender Discrimination: Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights; Empowerment.
10. Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar
Test 620-08-2023Philosophy of Religion
1. Notions of God: Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and Western).
2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).
3. Problem of Evil.
4. Soul: Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
5. Reason, Revelation and Faith.
6. Religious Experience: Nature and Object (Indian and Western).
7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
10. Nature of Religious Language: Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non- cognitive.

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