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UGC NET Paper 2 — Philosophy

  • 100 questions
  • 200 marks
  • 120 minutes
  • +2 per right answer
  • no negative marking
  • Unit 1 — Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 2 — Classical Western: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Epistemology and Metaphysics10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 3 — Indian Ethics10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 4 — Western Ethics10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 5 — Contemporary Indian Philosophy10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 6 — Recent Western Philosophy10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 7 — Social and Political Philosophy: Indian10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 8 — Social and Political Philosophy: Western10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 9 — Logic10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit 10 — Applied Philosophy10 Qs · 20 marks

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From the chapter: Classical Indian Philosophy I: Vedic and Upaniṣadic Thought, Cārvāka and Jainism

Which Upaniṣad describes the four states of consciousness, jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti and turīya?

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Answer: C.

The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, the shortest of the principal Upaniṣads, analyses the syllable Om into the three states and the fourth (turīya). The Kaṭha is the dialogue of Naciketas and Yama; the Īśa and Kena deal with renunciation and the power behind the senses.

Syllabus

UGC NET Philosophy syllabus, unit by unit

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Unit 1 — Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics5 chapters
  1. Classical Indian Philosophy I: Vedic and Upaniṣadic Thought, Cārvāka and Jainism
  2. Classical Indian Philosophy II: Buddhism, from the Four Noble Truths to the Four Schools and Tibet
  3. Classical Indian Philosophy III: Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika
  4. Classical Indian Philosophy IV: Sāṃkhya, Yoga and Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā
  5. Classical Indian Philosophy V: The Schools of Vedānta
Unit 2 — Classical Western: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern: Epistemology and Metaphysics4 chapters
  1. Classical Western Philosophy I: The Pre-Socratics, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
  2. Classical Western Philosophy II: Medieval Philosophy and the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz)
  3. Classical Western Philosophy III: The British Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
  4. Classical Western Philosophy IV: Kant's Critical Philosophy and Hegel's Absolute Idealism
Unit 3 — Indian Ethics2 chapters
  1. Indian Ethics I: Puruṣārtha, Dharma, Duty and the Ethics of the Gītā and Mīmāṃsā
  2. Indian Ethics II: Karma, Ṛta and Satya, Yogakṣema, Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, and Jaina, Buddhist and Cārvāka Ethics
Unit 4 — Western Ethics2 chapters
  1. Western Ethics I: Basic Concepts, Teleology and Deontology, Egoism, Relativism and Intuitionism
  2. Western Ethics II: Kant, Utilitarianism, Theories of Punishment and the Cognitivism Debate
Unit 5 — Contemporary Indian Philosophy3 chapters
  1. Contemporary Indian Philosophy I: Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Iqbal, Tagore, K. C. Bhattacharyya and Radhakrishnan
  2. Contemporary Indian Philosophy II: Krishnamurti, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Deendayal Upadhyaya, M. N. Roy and Maulana Azad
  3. Contemporary Indian Philosophy III: Narayana Guru, Thiruvalluvar, Jyotiba Phule, Bhima Bhoi and Dayananda Saraswati
Unit 6 — Recent Western Philosophy4 chapters
  1. Recent Western Philosophy I: Frege, Logical Positivism, Moore and Russell
  2. Recent Western Philosophy II: Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayer, Quine, and Grice and Strawson
  3. Recent Western Philosophy III: Phenomenology and Existentialism (Husserl, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty)
  4. Recent Western Philosophy IV: Pragmatism (James, Dewey) and Post-Modernism (Nietzsche, Rorty, Levinas)
Unit 7 — Social and Political Philosophy: Indian2 chapters
  1. Indian Social and Political Philosophy I: The Mahābhārata, Kauṭilya and Kāmandaki
  2. Indian Social and Political Philosophy II: Constitutional Morality, Secularism, Rights, Social Justice, Social Institutions and Colonialism
Unit 8 — Social and Political Philosophy: Western3 chapters
  1. Western Social and Political Philosophy I: Plato, the Social Contract, Berlin on Liberty and Williams on Equality
  2. Western Social and Political Philosophy II: Liberal Theories of Justice (Rawls, Nozick, Dworkin, Sen) and Marxism
  3. Western Social and Political Philosophy III: Communitarianism, Multiculturalism and Feminism
Unit 9 — Logic3 chapters
  1. Logic I: Truth and Validity, Terms and Propositions, the Laws of Thought, the Square of Opposition and the Categorical Syllogism
  2. Logic II: Truth-Functions, Truth Tables, the Shorter Truth-Table Method and Proofs of Validity
  3. Logic III: Quantification and Its Rules, Axiomatic Systems, Fallacies, and Deduction and Induction
Unit 10 — Applied Philosophy2 chapters
  1. Applied Philosophy I: Philosophy of Technology, the Ethics of New Technologies and Environmental Ethics
  2. Applied Philosophy II: Medical, Professional, Media and Legal Ethics, and Philosophical Counselling

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What does the UGC NET Philosophy course cost?

The first chapter of the UGC NET course is free. All 30 chapters of this subject, in English and Hindi, unlock with the UGC NET plan — ₹29 a month, less than ₹1 a day, cancel anytime — with scored practice, the Paper-2 mock test and spaced revision. Premium adds the AI mentor.

Does it cover the whole Philosophy syllabus?

All 10 units of the NTA syllabus (subject code 03) are written, in 30 chapters, from the official document unit by unit.

What is the UGC NET Paper 2 exam pattern for Philosophy?

100 questions for 200 marks, with no negative marking. Paper 1 and Paper 2 are taken in one sitting of three hours; the mock test here rehearses Paper 2 in 120 minutes.

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