Philosophy Optional Thread : 2021

Preparing!

I am also prepatring, but for 2022. Let me know if anyone is up for doubts or PYQ discussion.

sadplato,lord_voldemort

pankajdewangan .

hello, philosophy optional

Aazaad .

Hey guys , the thread seems to become active after 5 months :P

We can post doubts and any insights here, this seems like a good enough place.

As for me, I have done reading of the syllabus once but still it feels very weak. I keep forgetting the concepts and also it seems like my understanding right now is not so good in the subject.

I think for the first reading my focus was more on mugging rather than understanding. So, I am planning to watch Philosophy videos again accompanied with reading. Hopefully that'll work.

If you guys have any advice, thanks in advance

Aanand142 .

@Aazaad hey I m preparing for philosophy

Aanand142 .

@sbhati yes I am up

Aanand142 .

@Aazaad can we form a dedicated telegram grp for daily writing of philosophy qns. We can evaluate each other's answers and keep motivating each other for consistency

I also think we can discuss doubts etc here only. I appeared with philosophy in mains 2020. But got less marks than expected. After going through Himanshu Gupta’s answers for paper 1, I think my main problem was lack of “content density” (or basically use of a lot of keywords). I also may not have fully addressed the demand of the question at some places. I couldn’t study philosophy for last few months for some reason. Now I am updating my notes with better content and trying to appear for tests regularly. Still have to figure out what went wrong in paper 2.

Aazaad,

Supertramp .

Am also preparing for 2021

Can we have some daily questions from some good test series if somebody has access to them.

Aazaad,

Aazaad .

@sbhati Currently Mitra and patanjali are my two sources.

What were your sources last time ?

And how are you improving your content ?

@Aazaad Other than Patanjali notes, I referred to internet and books here and there wherever I felt a need. Did not cover any book cover to cover. This time, for paper 1, I am trying to supplement old material with content from plato.stanford, iep and extracts from primary texts wherever I feel that content or understanding is lacking. Haven't yet figured out a new strategy for paper 2.

Aazaad,

Can anyone explain how "intentionality" relates to Husserl's phenomenology? I understand that intentionality means that consciousness is always consciousness of something. But so what? How is this relevant to Husserl's phenomenological reduction?

sadplato .