Basic Modules (82 ECTS)

M-02 Basic Skills in Philosophy (12 ECTS)

M-02.1 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

• 180004 VU [ de en ] M-02 Introduction to Academic Writing in Philosophy

M-02.2 Supervised Reading Course

• 180018 LPS Anselm's Proslogion
• 180019 LPS Plato: Theaetetus
• 180020 LPS Hannah Arendt on freedom, action, politics
• 180130 LPS Political epistemology
• 180131 LPS Kant's "Foundations for the Metaphysics of Morals"
• 180132 LPS Selected Topics from Henry Sidgwicks`s Methods of Ethics
• 180181 LPS Hans Jonas: The principle of responsibility
• 180217 LPS [ en ] Selections from Audre Lorde

M-03 Thought and Language (20 ECTS)

M-03.1 Fundamentals of Logic

• 180005 VO M-03 Fundamentals of Logic

M-03.2 Exercise Course in Logic

• 180006 UE M-03 Exercise Course in Logic

M-03.3 Reasoning in Philosophy

• 180007 VU Argumentation Theory

M-03.4 Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

• 180008 VO-L Lecture Course with Readings on the Philosophy of Language

M-04 History of Philosophy until the End of the 19th Century (20 ECTS)

M-04.1 Lecture Course with Readings on Greek Terminology

• 180009 VO Greek Terminology

M-04.2 Lecture Course with Readings on the History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

• 180010 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180219 VO-L M-04 Lecture with reading on history of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

M-04.3 Lecture Course with Readings on History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity)

• 180011 VO-L History of Philosophy II

M-04.4 Lecture Course with Readings on the History of Philosophy III (Modern Philosophy)

• 180012 VO-L History of Philosophy III: Modern Period Until the End of the 19th Century

M-05 Fundamentals of Theoretical Philosophy (15 ECTS)

M-05.1 Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180013 PS The ontological difference - Martin Heidegger - Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik
• 180014 PS Metaphysics and ontology
• 180184 PS Leibniz' Scientia Generalis - Unity of science from the spirit of philosophy

M-05.2 Lecture Course with Readings on Metaphysics and Ontology

• 180015 VO-L Introduction to Analytic Metaphysics

M-05.3 Epistemology

• 180016 VO Introduction to Epistemology
• 180218 VO Introduction to Epistemology

M-05.4 Theory of Science

• 180021 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science

M-06 Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy (15 ECTS)

M-06.1 Ethics

• 180022 PS Evil and Morality in Hannah Arendt
• 180024 PS What is luck?
• 180182 PS Second nature - normativity and sociality of the human life form
• 180235 PS ( ON-SITE ) The Categorical Imperativ

M-06.2 Lecture Course with Reading on Ethics

• 180026 VO-L The blind spot of morality

M-06.3 Philosophy and Society

• 180027 VO Theories of violence

M-06.4 Elements of Applied Ethics

• 180028 VO [ en ] Introduction to animal ethics