2. Mandatory Modules (104 ECTS)

M-02 Language and Thought (14 ECTS)

M 2.1 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

• 180188 VU M-02 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

M 2.2 Lecture Course on Greek Terminology

• 180096 VO M-04 Greek Terminology

M 2.3 Introductory Seminar with Close Readings (Version 2011)

• 180063 PS Plato, Dialogue Theaitetos
• 180064 PS The Social Virtue Ethics by Hermann Cohen

M-03 Language and Thought (15 ECTS)

M 3.1 Basic Logic

• 180100 VO M-03 Fundamentals of Logic

M 3.2 Exercise Course in Logic

• 180061 UE [ de en ] M-03 Exercise Course in Logic

M 3.3 Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation

• 180065 VU M-03 Reasoning in Philosophy

M 3.4 Philosophy of Language

• 180097 VO Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century (15 ECTS)

M 4.1 History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

• 180101 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M 4.2 History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modern Period)

• 180185 VO-L History of Philosophy II - Infinite Space: A Philosophical Challenge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era

M 4.3 History of Philosophy III (Modern Period)

• 180234 VO-L History of Philosophy III - Kant and German Idealism

M-05 Reality and Truth (20 ECTS)

M 5.1 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180071 PS René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy
• 180077 PS Methodical Constructivism and Culturalism - 20th-Century Philosophy of Technology
• 180190 PS Self-immolation by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
• 180205 PS Kant's Response to Hume
• 180218 PS [ en ] Philosophy of the Special Sciences (Selected Topics)

M 5.2 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180191 VO-L Modern First Philosophy

M 5.3 Knowledge and Society

• 180070 VO Practical philosophy as applied philosophy
• 180211 VO Introduction to Feminist Deconstruction
• 180215 VO-L Philosophy of science and the question of research in psychoanalysis. Part 1 - First research trials

M 5.4 Epistemology

• 180067 VO Introduction to Epistemology

M 5.5 Theory of Science

• 180238 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science

M-06 Good and Evil (20 ECTS)

M 6.1 Introductiory Seminar in Ethics

• 180069 PS Theories of revolution
• 180110 PS Animal Cognition - Können Tiere denken?
• 180212 PS New Marx Readings
• 180214 PS Body as Sign, Body as Flesh - Philosophy as a Practice of Freedom

M 6.2 Ethics

• 180193 VO-L Cosmopolitan perspectives from antiquity to the present
• 180210 VO-L Theories of Justice
• 180219 VO Augustinus: De civitate Dei
• 180239 SE Ethics, Human Rights and Justice in Psychoanalysis

M 6.3 Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy

• 180186 VO Political philosophy
• 180193 VO-L Cosmopolitan perspectives from antiquity to the present
• 180210 VO-L Theories of Justice
• 180219 VO Augustinus: De civitate Dei
• 180241 SE Plato's concept of education, consequences and boundaries

M 6.4 Philosophy of Law and Morals

• 180186 VO Political philosophy

M 6.5 Fundamentals of Applied Ethics

• 180194 VO Introduction to Applied Ethics

M-07 Technology and Media (10 ECTS)

• 180127 KU [ en ] Synthetic Biology and Biological Possibility

M 7.1 Media Theory

• 180074 SE Media Workshop: "Heimat"
• 180079 SE Philosophy and politics of images in an intercultural and global context

M 7.2 Philosophy of Technology

• 180072 VO-L [ en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
• 180076 KU Critical Posthumanism - Introduction
• 180183 VO-L Roboethics - Eine Einführung

M-08 The Foreign and the Familiar (10 ECTS)

M 8.1 Intercultural Philosophy and Cultural Hermeneutics

• 180079 SE Philosophy and politics of images in an intercultural and global context
• 180176 SE Multiculturalism and the Postcolonial Critique
• 180226 SE How far are Philosophical Paradoxa in Our Life Immanent? - Philosophy as a topos of the Vivid Cognition

M 8.2 Non-European Philosophy

• 180202 KU Zhuangzi. The unknown third - The chinese philosophy of Zhuangzi and his profound ethics.