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Chandigarh University has decided to conduct an entrance cum scholarship test named as Chandigarh University Common Entrance Test (CUCET) for admission to various programs so as to provide an opportunity to bright and inquisitive young minds from across the country to study in most challenging and diverse academic environment.
CUCET Syllabus has been released by the authorities of Chandigarh University. Candidates can check the syllabus of CUCET 2023 to know the subjects, units and topics that have to be studied for the upcoming entrance examination. The subject-wise CUCET syllabus will allow the candidates to become familiar with the topics that they have to prepare to excel in the examination. Read to know more about CUCET Syllabus 2023.
CUCET Philosophy Syllabus
This test is designed to assess the test takers’ general proficiency in the use of Philosophical terms as a means of Philosophical concepts in real life situations and specifically to test, the test takers’ knowledge of basic philosophical terms, their knowledge, their ability to understand, and also their ability to apply the elements of Philosophical Phenomena.
UNIT 1: Nature and Scope and Branches of Philosophy
Classical Indian philosophy: Concepts of Vedic and Upanishidic period-(i) RTA, (ii) Vedas, (iii) Yajna (iv) RNA(v) Karma and Moksha. Cārvāka School of Indian Philosophy: materialism and hedonism. Yoga philosophy: nature of yoga, kinds of yoga, eight-fold path, psychology of Yoga, consciousness.Contemporary Indian philosophy: Gandhi- truth, non-violence, satyagrah, swaraj, critique of civilization; Jyotibha Phule- critical understanding of Caste system.
UNIT 2: Philosophy and Science
Relation of philosophy with science and religion, Branches of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology, aesthetics. Classical western philosophy: pre-Socrates Philosophers- Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenies, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus. Modern philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza. Applied ethics: meaning, domains: technology ethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics, professional ethics, legal ethics, philosophical counselling.
UNIT 3: Logic and Reasoning
Logic: meaning, scope, uses, logic as science and art, Logic and psychology, Logic and Grammar, fundamental laws of thought, Terms and division.Proposition and its divisions: meaning, divisions- fourfold division of proposition, Euler’s Circles, Venn’s diagrams, distribution of terms.Inference: meaning, kinds, square of opposition, Fallacies.Symbolic Logic: Need, value, truth function, truth table.