Syllabus
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Course Code: PHI-HC-203 Course Name: Western Metaphysics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Doctrine of Substance: Thales, Aneximender and Aneximenise), Problem of Change and Permanence: Parmenides and Heraclites; Democritus: Atomism. | |
| 2 | Plato: Theory of Ideas; Aristotle: Matter and Form; Theory of Causation - Four Causes (Material, Efficient, Formal and Final); Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Ideas by Aristotle. | |
| 3 | Descartes' Dualism of Mind and Body; Concept of Substance in Spinoza; Leibnitz's Doctrine of Monads; Mind-body problem in Descartes, Spinoza and Leibnitz. | |
| 4 | Locke's doctrine of Matter and its rejection by Berkeley; Hume's rejection of Self, Matter and God; Hume's view on Causality; Hegel’s Absolute Idealism. | |
