BSEH SS Philosophy study plan

Define philosophy in one sentence and distinguish it from religion, science and ideology by naming one criterion of demarcation for each.

Compare the Socratic, dialectical, phenomenological and analytic methods, then select the method best suited to a stated philosophical question and justify the choice.

Name the six orthodox and three heterodox Indian schools and match each to a foundational text, founder or defining doctrine.

State the core metaphysical position of each of the nine schools in a single accurate sentence.

Explain the pramana scheme and distinguish perception, inference, testimony and analogy with one worked example each.

Analyze Nagarjuna's tetralemma or the Jain doctrine of anekantavada, and state precisely how it challenges two-valued logic.

Compare Shankara's Advaita with Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita on the reality of the world and the status of the individual self.

Sequence the Presocratics from Thales to Democritus and state the central question each addressed.

Contrast Plato's theory of Forms with Aristotle's hylomorphism on universals, change and the nature of substance.

Outline Descartes' method of doubt and the cogito, and state one standard objection to his argument.

Distinguish rationalism from empiricism through two specific disagreements between Locke and Leibniz.

Explain Kant's Copernican turn, the synthetic a priori and the phenomena/noumena distinction in plain language.

Summarize Nietzsche, Sartre and Wittgenstein, each with one key term and one substantive criticism.

Contrast one analytic and one continental treatment of the same question, such as meaning or freedom.

Define metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics and aesthetics, and give two representative questions for each branch.

Distinguish validity from soundness, then construct one valid-but-unsound argument and one sound argument.

Compare the correspondence, coherence and pragmatic theories of truth, stating one objection to each.

Differentiate metaphysical realism, idealism and anti-realism with a concrete example of each.

Identify three central questions of aesthetics and one theory that answers each.

Distinguish consequentialist, deontological and virtue-ethical reasoning on a single moral dilemma.

State the categorical imperative in two formulations and apply each to a case of lying.

Explain the act/rule utilitarian distinction and one classic objection concerning justice or integrity.

Apply Rawls' veil of ignorance and Aristotle's golden mean to an everyday moral problem.

Identify one metaethical position, such as realism, emotivism or error theory, and state its main challenge.

Distinguish the cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments, and state one objection to each.

Explain the problem of evil and two responses, such as free will and soul-making, including their limits.

Compare fideism, evidentialism and religious pluralism on the rationality of religious belief.

Contrast Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau on the state of nature and the social contract.

Explain Rawls' justice as fairness and one communitarian critique, such as Sandel's or MacIntyre's.

Summarize the contributions of at least four contemporary Indian thinkers, such as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Tagore, Radhakrishnan or Iqbal, to ethics or politics.

Compare Gandhi's ahimsa with Ambedkar's critique of caste as responses to social injustice.

Apply one ethical theory to a current issue such as AI ethics, environmental duty or free speech, and state the strongest counterargument.

Distinguish philosophical argument from rhetorical persuasion by identifying two argumentative moves in a public debate.

Reconstruct your error log and re-test every missed concept from Domains 1-8.

Sit a full-length timed mock and calculate section-wise accuracy for each domain.

Produce a one-page condensed concept map linking the core terms of all eight domains.

Name your three weakest areas and write a targeted post-exam review plan for each.