My Conceptualizations

Philosophy Syllabus for UPSC Main Examination Paper-I History and Problems of Philosophy 1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality. 2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom. 3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism. 4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God 5. Hegel: Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism 6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein: Defence of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing. 7. Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions. ...

History: Art and Culture: Nitin Singhania's book Ancient and Mideval: Tamilnadu Intermediate Book for History Modern: Spectrum or Bipin Chandra's Modern History Contemporary History: Bipin Chandra's Since Independency Polity: Indian polity by M.Lakshmikanth's book Governance: Vajiram and Ravi institute material ARC's reports 1 and 2 Economy: Indian Economy: Ramesh Singh Economic Survey of India and Budget released by Govt of India every year Geography: Certified Physical and Human Geography by GcLeong For Indian Geography by Majid Hussain Environment: Environment and Ecology by Shankar IAS academy Internal Security: Vajiram and Ravi institute material Ethics and Integrity: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude by Lexicon  Errand job, scanty salaries

Humans are very religious, nearly 85% of the population adheres to religion in one way or the other. So religion or god defined in words of Galloway "Man's faith in a power beyond himself Whereby he seeks to satisfy emotional needs and gains stability of life, and which he expresses in acts of worship and service" Martineau said: "Religion is a belief in an ever-living God, that is a Divine Mind and Will ruling the universe and holding Moral relations with mankind" Theology and Religion Theology - Study of God or the Deity( have some degree of faith). Involves deepening of spirituality Religion - Study of different religions, their believes, and Institutions ( May not incline towards any religion)

"Good governance is perhaps the single most important factor in the eradication of poverty and promoting development" *** Said by Kofi Annan Kofi Annan was the former General Secretary of the UN(1997-2006), born in Ghana. 

Philosophy gives a new perspective of looking at the world. Understanding of Religion, People, Emotions, Relationships, in fact, everything on earth.