Help needed regarding contemporary western philosophy

Oldhorse

Hello everyone,

I have written three mains with philosophy optional. But I always find problems with contemporary western part. For example...I cannot distinguish between core ideas of Russell and Wittgenstein or why Wittgenstein considered that logical positivists misunderstood him. Phenomenology, existentialism and quine strawson go above my head.

In all other sections, my concepts are crystal clear. But this part I have failed to understand. All I have done till now is do rattafication in this section and I have actually scored around 150s in paper 1. But I really wish to understand contemporary western part. I have tried all coaching notes and also from internet and YouTube but to no avail and the effort has been quite frustrating.

I request everyone and seniors with good hold over this part to help me with this section wrt books, notes, audio/video etc. I would be highly indebted for your help

ccd28

i have joined western philosophy module at aashram ias the teacher is avinash sinha so far i found him good i have notes also till descarte's philosophy after 15 days i can give you notes of contemprory western philosophers in case you need

Oldhorse

Thank you @ccd28 that would be great help.
I would wish to know your reviews on his contemporary Western part from Moore Russell onwards.

Thank you

doc

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

Oldhorse

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

@doc I would suggest studying c d jha for Indian part. Some topics are also very well covered in dutt and Chatterjee. For western, y mashih is excellent though it requires some effort.

Also, I think in some topics coaching notes are not correct. For ex in svatah and partah pramanyavada one has to take the stand that svatah is more logical than partah. Berkeley idealism cannot be called objective, coachings teach otherwise etc etc
For contemporary part I am clueless though

knight

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

@doc I would suggest studying c d jha for Indian part. Some topics are also very well covered in dutt and Chatterjee. For western, y mashih is excellent though it requires some effort.

Also, I think in some topics coaching notes are not correct. For ex in svatah and partah pramanyavada one has to take the stand that svatah is more logical than partah. Berkeley idealism cannot be called objective, coachings teach otherwise etc etc
For contemporary part I am clueless though

hey ..u said c d jha ,do u mean cd sharma, asking because couldnt find any book for Cd jha..
thanks

Oldhorse

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

@doc I would suggest studying c d jha for Indian part. Some topics are also very well covered in dutt and Chatterjee. For western, y mashih is excellent though it requires some effort.

Also, I think in some topics coaching notes are not correct. For ex in svatah and partah pramanyavada one has to take the stand that svatah is more logical than partah. Berkeley idealism cannot be called objective, coachings teach otherwise etc etc
For contemporary part I am clueless though

hey ..u said c d jha ,do u mean cd sharma, asking because couldnt find any book for Cd jha..
thanks

My bad...C d Sharma I meant...CD jha was a friend of mine

doc

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

@doc I would suggest studying c d jha for Indian part. Some topics are also very well covered in dutt and Chatterjee. For western, y mashih is excellent though it requires some effort.

Also, I think in some topics coaching notes are not correct. For ex in svatah and partah pramanyavada one has to take the stand that svatah is more logical than partah. Berkeley idealism cannot be called objective, coachings teach otherwise etc etc
For contemporary part I am clueless though

Looks like u have done gud amount of research... When i attempted according to coaching materials i could not get gud marks

Bookworm123

@Oldhorse Do u have any idea whether the concepts explained in the coaching notes for western philosophy are correct or not ??

Jhandu_baam

Maine 2017 mains likha hai...mere pas amit singh ke audio notes hai...contemp and western and religion ke...but ye sare hindi me hai....aur samjhne ke liye best hai...pid hai rs 8000/-....kyoki maine bhi kisi se kharide the

Oldhorse

@Oldhorse can u plz share ur approach for philosophy optional... Class notes r not enough now.. How one should frame gud answer

@doc I would suggest studying c d jha for Indian part. Some topics are also very well covered in dutt and Chatterjee. For western, y mashih is excellent though it requires some effort.

Also, I think in some topics coaching notes are not correct. For ex in svatah and partah pramanyavada one has to take the stand that svatah is more logical than partah. Berkeley idealism cannot be called objective, coachings teach otherwise etc etc
For contemporary part I am clueless though

Looks like u have done gud amount of research... When i attempted according to coaching materials i could not get gud marks

I adopted writing style taught at patanjali. But I think one has to add extra material by himself coz coaching notes are not enough. Contemporary part has been pure ratta though