Rev. Dr Neelanirappel Johnson

Program : Baccalaureate in Philosophy Semester : S6 Credits : 7 Teacher : Dr Neelanirappel Johnson Aim It is an overview on the nature, activities and the destiny of man. It attempts to assess the place of human person in and his relationship to the world. In some respect it also constitutes a metaphysics of man, for it is a probe of the deepest causes and meaning of man. In evaluating different theories the motive is to enhance the students with an openness to truth. It is an attempt to see man as a totality within totality. References J. Z. Young, An Introduction to the study of man, Oxford University Press, 1979. Jose Angel Lombo & Francesco Russo, Philosophical Anthropology;…

Program : Baccalaureate in Philosophy Semester : S3 Credits : 2 Teacher : Rev. Dr Neelanirappel Johnson Aim Inductive logic is the logic of scientific discovery. In deductive inferences, the truth of the conclusion necessarily follows from the truth of the premises but the conclusion’s content is at least implicitly included in the premises’ content. In non-deductive (hence, also inductive) inferences, the truth of the conclusion is only probable given the truth of the premises, but the conclusion’s content exceeds that of the premises. The course starts by discussing the difference between deduction and induction and then the discussion proceeds to the problem of induction and its solution, difference between observation and experiment, different kinds of induction, postulates of induction,…

Program : Baccalaureate in Philosophy Semester : S2 Credits : 05 Teacher : Rev. Fr Neelanirappel Johnson Aim Logic as theory of good reasoning help the students not only to reason but also to understand how reason works. It allows to necessarily infer all the expectations that follow from accepting some set of premises as true. Offering the course from the beginning of their philosophical formation will facilitate the students to formulate their rational thinking according to the laws of logic. Deduction which is formal logic starts with a detailed analysis of the thematic clarification like denotation, connotation, classification of terms, definition and division and its different rules and fallacies. The major discussion of the topic is about mediate and…

Program : Baccalaureate in Philosophy Semester : S5 Credits : 05 Teacher : rev. Dr Neelanirappel Johnson Aim The purpose of this course is to engage both the minds and hearts to a more systematization and innovative horizon of the latest philosophical trends something that has missed during the modern period. Many of the older mechanisms and the theoretical formulations lack the capacity to solve the problem of the modern times. The period heralds the rise of analytical and continental philosophy which gave philosophical thinking a new direction shifting the attention from the traditional topics. There are a good number of European thinkers who paved the way for the contemporary philosophy. Obviously, the impetus of the discussion derives from the…