A. Bachelor's Degree Programme Philosophy

1. Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase (StEOP)

1.a StEOP-Modul 1.1 Einführung in die theoretische Philosophie

• 180022 EV-L STEOP: Practical Philosophy

1.b StEOP-Modul 1.2 Einführung in die praktische Philosophie

• 180021 EV-L STEOP: Practical Philosophy

2. Required Modules

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180034 LPS Plato dialogues on love, lust and friendship
• 180035 LPS Reading Seminar: Pierre Bourdieu
• 180036 LPS Kant - Prolegomena
• 180037 LPS Philosophy of German Romanticisms - An Introduction
• 180095 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180096 GV Greek Terminology
• 180097 LPS Paul Feyerabend-Against Method
• 180153 LPS Classical Chinese Philosophy
• 180155 LPS Aristotle, Physics. 3rd and 4th book - kinesis, infinity, space, emptyness, time

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180016 IK [ en de ] Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180038 VO-GKL Basic Logic
• 180039 VO Philosophy of Language
• 180094 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century

• 180019 VO-L History of Philosophy II
• 180042 VO-L Kant and German Idealism as Challenge for Contemporary Philosophy - (in Aethetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion)
• 180043 VO-L History of Philosophy III (17th-19th centuries)
• 180088 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M-05 Reality and Truth

• 010028 SE Selected Works on classic Metaphysics
• 180031 PS Classical Texts in Epistemology: Descartes, Hume, Kant
• 180032 SE [ en ] Why be a good believer?
• 180041 VO-L Kant and German Idealism
• 180047 SE Beeing - Developing - Thinking - Philosophical Anthropology, Dialectic and Ontology
• 180048 VO Introduction into the Theory of Knowledge
• 180050 VO-L History of Historiography of Philosophy
• 180114 SE Leibniz experience - understand Leibniz - excursion into philosophical Archive
• 180115 SE Husserl and Carnap - points of contact in knowledge, metaphysics and method
• 180116 SE The universality of the natural sciences - Thomas Nagel's critique of reductionist materialism in an epistemological context.
• 180128 VO-L Critique of fetishism - Erkenntnis- und Ideologiekritik im westlichen Marxismus
• 180129 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
• 180147 PS Phenomenology of Time
• 180150 VO-L Problems from Spinoza
• 180184 SE Definition of the person and ethical challenges
• 180204 SE Basic concepts of metaphysics explicates Kant's thinking

M-06 Good and Evil

• 180017 SE [ en ] Philosophy of Human Rights
• 180026 SE Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right - Die Sittlichkeit (Familie, bürgerliche Gesellschaft, Staat)
• 180027 PS Philosophy of (erotic) love
• 180051 PS Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• 180052 PS Ethics of Precariousness
• 180053 SE Kant : Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Right
• 180054 SE Herbert Marcuse - Culture and Politics - Critical Theorie as a Synthesis
• 180055 VO-L Practical Rationality
• 180056 VO Introduction to Applied Ethics
• 180087 PS Cicero De finibus bonorum et malorum
• 180089 SE Ancient Ethics
• 180101 PS Metaethics and Normative Ethics
• 180102 SE Platons Politeia - On the problem of justice
• 180103 VO-L The philosophical problem of violence
• 180104 SE Theories of justice
• 180130 VO Right and Morality - Theorien vertraglicher Begründung staatlicher Ordnung
• 180179 SE Ethics and psychodynamic anthropology Part 1 - Psychoanalytic investigations into ethics
• 180184 SE Definition of the person and ethical challenges
• 180192 PS Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

M-07 Technology and Media

• 180020 VO-L [ de en ] Education and databases
• 180028 SE Prometheus, Turn and Frame: The Philosophy of Technology of Günther Anders and Martin Heidegger
• 180057 VO-L [ en ] Knowledge Creation: Epistemological foundations
• 180091 SE Two or three things that one of the Philosophy of Technology should know
• 180105 VO-L Walter Benjamin's Media Theory - From the Metaphysics of Language to the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
• 180131 SE Media Philosophy and Public - Über politische Aspekte der medialen Transformation

M-08 The Own and the Alien

• 180059 SE Philosophy of Culture - Migrants, Refugees, Diaspora
• 180061 VO-L Basic concepts of practical philosophy and their intercultural relevance - tolerance - respect - recognition - esteem
• 180126 SE Philosophy in Latin America (Mexico) - Identity, Comparison, Interaction between Latin American and European
• 180133 VO-L Dogen: shobo genzo (Reflect on the right dharma Buddha) - Philosophical Anthropology to the global world
• 180149 SE Friedrich Nietzsche and Indian Philosophy - Zarathustra, the counter-ideal to the ascetic ideal
• 180167 SE Reading Chinese Philosophy - Mencius and Hsün Tze (Xunzi)

3. Elective Modules

M-09 Mind and Language

• 010028 SE Selected Works on classic Metaphysics
• 180018 VO-L Philosophy of Expression
• 180062 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180064 SE God an the Line
• 180075 SE The ontological argument
• 180076 SE speech act
• 180079 SE Ernst Cassirer - Philosophy of symbolic forms
• 180106 SE Arguments against materialism - Bewusstsein Intentionalität Subjekt
• 180154 SE Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato
• 180156 SE Philosophical Logic
• 180163 SE At the limits of Cognitive Science and Philosophy - Zur erkenntnistheoretischen Teleologie in unserer Gegenwart
• 180168 VO-L Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• 180177 VO History of philosophy in the ancient world - Aristotelesrezeption im Bagdad
• 180041 VO-L Kant and German Idealism
• 180184 SE Definition of the person and ethical challenges

M-10 Art, Culture, Religion

• 010031 SE Columbus and the consequences. The discovery of the "New Wolrd" and the genesis of modern philosophy
• 010083 VO Metaphysics
• 180018 VO-L Philosophy of Expression
• 180063 SE Paul Celan und Harrison Birtwistle
• 180064 SE God an the Line
• 180148 VO-L [ de en ] Arts-Based-Philosophy - Don't Mind the Gap!
• 180177 VO History of philosophy in the ancient world - Aristotelesrezeption im Bagdad
• 180183 SE Philosophical types of reading of Antigone

M-11 Contemporary Thought

• 180027 PS Philosophy of (erotic) love
• 180045 PS Relying on others - knowledge on trust?
• 180062 VO Cognitive Science - Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180063 SE Paul Celan und Harrison Birtwistle
• 180064 SE God an the Line
• 180065 SE Discourse and History: Foucaults Archeology of Knowledge
• 180070 SE Fundam. questions of existence analysis: The importance of lang. for the practice of psychoanalysis
• 180077 SE Truth telling, disagreemnt, differend: Foucault, Ranciere, Lyotard
• 180106 SE Arguments against materialism - Bewusstsein Intentionalität Subjekt
• 180107 SE Body, Knowledge and Society in Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu
• 180110 VO Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1) - Readings to sex in early psychoanalysis
• 180132 VO-L The Modernity of Marx's analysis of capital
• 180156 SE Philosophical Logic
• 180163 SE At the limits of Cognitive Science and Philosophy - Zur erkenntnistheoretischen Teleologie in unserer Gegenwart
• 180168 VO-L Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• 180184 SE Definition of the person and ethical challenges
• 180188 SE Facets (feminist) Enlightenment criticism

M-12 Applied Ethics

• 180025 SE Environmental Ethics II: Systemic Goods
• 180067 VO-L "Principles of Biomedical Ethics" of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress
• 180103 VO-L The philosophical problem of violence
• 300084 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology

M-13 Gender and Society

• 140395 SE T I - VM3 - VM4 Foundations of Social Criticism I
• 180027 PS Philosophy of (erotic) love
• 180069 PS Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
• 180110 VO Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1) - Readings to sex in early psychoanalysis
• 180111 SE Body as a sign body as flesh. To Psychosomatics of sex
• 180125 VO-L Lecture: Critique of Political Economy
• 180132 VO-L The Modernity of Marx's analysis of capital
• 180148 VO-L [ de en ] Arts-Based-Philosophy - Don't Mind the Gap!
• 180188 SE Facets (feminist) Enlightenment criticism
• 180105 VO-L Walter Benjamin's Media Theory - From the Metaphysics of Language to the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility

M-14 Human and Nature

• 010009 VO Philosophical Anthropology
• 180070 SE Fundam. questions of existence analysis: The importance of lang. for the practice of psychoanalysis
• 180106 SE Arguments against materialism - Bewusstsein Intentionalität Subjekt
• 180112 VO Phenomenology of the Senses
• 180113 VO-L Introduction in Helmuth Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology - Leib und Lachen
• 180150 VO-L Problems from Spinoza
• 180168 VO-L Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• 180180 VO Life, Mind, Death - Problems and Perspectives of Biophilosophy
• 180184 SE Definition of the person and ethical challenges
• 180185 SE Confrontation with death. Anthropological and ethical challenges

M-15 Philosophy of Science

• 180045 PS Relying on others - knowledge on trust?
• 180170 SE In the footsteps of Leibniz 'Scientia generalis
• 180178 VO-L Philosophy of science and psychoanalysis. Part 1 - From the historical to the current debate