
CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY
EDUCATION
CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
SHIKSHA SADAN, 17-ROUSE AVENUE, INSTITUTIONAL AREA
NEW DELHI-110 002
EO(COM.)/ACAD./2009/
22/10/2009
Circular No. 45/09
All the Heads of CBSE Affiliated Schools
Sub. : Availability of reading material
in Philosophy, Class XII
Dear Principal,
Recently the Board has received feedback from the
Philosophy teachers and students regarding certain
difficulties they are facing in finding relevant
materials on Part C, Applied Philosophy of the
Philosophy syllabus for Class XII. Responding to
their requests the Board has brought out
supplementary e-learning material and posted it on
its website at
www.cbse.nic.in at
THIS LINK.
The teachers and students are advised to use this
material in addition to the reference material for
different copies of the syllabus suggested therein.
Kindly bring this to the notice of concerned
teachers and students.
Yours
faithfully,
(C. GURUMURTHY)
DIRECTOR (ACAD.)
Copy with a request to respective Heads of
Directorates/KVS/NVS/CTSA as indicated below to also
disseminate the information to all concerned schools
under their jurisdiction:
1. The Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan,
18-Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New
Delhi-110 016.
2. The Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti,
A-28, Kailash Colony, New Delhi.
3. The Director of Education, Directorate of
Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Old Secretariat,
Delhi-110054.
4. The Director of Public Instructions (Schools),
Union Territory Secretariat, Sector 9,
Chandigarh-160 017.
5. The Director of Education, Govt. of Sikkim,
Gangtok, Sikkim – 737 101.
6. The Director of School Education, Govt. of
Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar-791 111.
7. The Director of Education, Govt. of A&N Islands,
Port Blair-744 101.
8. The Secretary, Central Tibetan School
Administration, ESSESS Plaza, Community Centre,
Sector 3, Rohini, Delhi-110 085.
9. All the Regional Officers of CBSE with the
request to send this circular to all the Heads of
the affiliated schools of the Board in their
respective regions.
10. The Education Officers/AEOs of the Academic
Branch, CBSE.
11. The Joint Secretary (IT) with the request to put
this circular on the CBSE website.
12. The Library and Information Officer, CBSE
13. EO to Chairman, CBSE
14. PA to CE, CBSE
15. PA to Secretary, CBSE
16. PA to HOD (AIEEE)
17. PA to HOD (Edusat)
18. PRO, CBSE
Director (Acad.)
Reading Material in Class 12
PART C : Applied Philosophy
Unit 10. Environmental Ethics and
Professional Ethics.
(a)
Study of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Environment.
(b) Medical and Business Ethics.
(c) Philosophy of Education
CENTRAL
BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
Preet Vihar, Delhi - 110092
PREFACE : Philosophy, as a
foundational discipline of all knowledge, is
essentially practice-oriented. It is both a view and
a way of life. It is not just love of wisdom, as its
etymology may suggest, but also shaping a life in
accordance with the acquired wisdom. It is no doubt
a theoretical enterprise but it is not speculative.
It has practical applications, as theory without
practice is lame and futile and conversely practice
without theoretical foundation is blind and at
random. Though philosophy is global in its
theoretical formulation its application has to be
local and regional in concrete life-situations and
therefore Indian context is prominently put forth
here. It can be supplemented from contexts of other
cultures. The need for some reference material in
Philosophy was being felt for quite some time since
there are only a few study materials existing
particularly at school level on applied philosophy.
It is expected this reading material will prove
useful to our teachers in effective transaction of
this syllabus and to our students in pre