A. Bachelor's Degree Programme Philosophy

1. Entry Level Phase

M-01 Methods and Ideas

• 180068 VO History of Philosophical Ideas
• 180310 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180330 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180352 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy

M-02 Learning to do Philosophy

• 180125 LPS Reading Course - Plato II - The statesman
• 180390 LPS Reading Course - Basic Writings of Philosophy: David Hume and Immanuel Kant
• 180392 LPS Reading Course - Learning to Philosophize
• 180403 UE Greek Terminology
• 180404 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy
• 180431 LPS Reading Course - Aristotle: Metaphysics
• 180511 LPS Reading Course - J.J. Rousseau: Social contract
• 180519 UE Greek Terminology

2. Required modules

M-03 Language and Thought

• 180142 VO Introduction to Philosophy of language
• 180350 VO-GKL Introduction to Logic
• 180369 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic
• 180370 UE-GKL Logic exercises and classic texts
• 180409 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic
• 180412 IK Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation
• 180472 IK Rhetoric and Theory of Argumentation

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

• 180141 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180337 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - From Kant to Hegel
• 180361 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180371 VO-L History of Philosophy II (MIddle Ages and Early Modernity) - Major Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts

M-05 Reality and Truth

• 180332 VO-L Logics and metaphysics
• 180418 SE Aristotle's Metaphysics book Zeta - The problem of substance in book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics
• 180426 SE [ en ] Analytic Social Ontology
• 180430 VO Descartes
• 180433 VO Theory of Science
• 180434 PS History of Epistemology - Locke, Berkeley, Hume
• 180437 VO-L An Outline of the System of Philosophy
• 180439 VO-L Forms of speculative Dialectic - Reconstruction of the Forms of speculative Dialectic in German Idealism ( Fichte,Schelling,Hegel ) and critical survey of the most important attempts at its reception
• 180440 VO-L Metaphysics and Ontology - Aristotels - Heidegger
• 180442 VO-L Metaphysics and Ontology
• 180448 SE Transcendentalphilosophy - Basic approaches and problems
• 180455 SE Time: a philosophical problem
• 180456 SE [ en ] Devastating Tropes and Deceiving Senses - Scepticism in the Early Modern Period (SE)
• 180460 PS The World as will and power
• 180463 SE Historism and Critique of Historical Reason - Towards Philosophy of Social,Cultural & Human Sciences
• 180478 SE Introduction to historical Epistemology
• 180483 PS The Apology of Socrates
• 180488 SE Thinking in Open Systems: Cognition, Emotion and Transdisciplinarien Approaches

M-06 Good and Evil

• 180172 VO Law and Justice
• 180342 VO-L Theories of ethic
• 180354 SE Wherefore we must - Ontology in the field of Moral-Philosophy
• 180386 PS Ethics
• 180415 PS [ fr ] The moral reflection in the french philosophy
• 180420 SE Lévinas - Ethic as "first Philosophy" 2
• 180422 VO Ethic in Medicine
• 180449 SE Acknowleging - A fundamental category. A fundamental category to ethics, social & polit. philosophy
• 180450 SE Towards Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics
• 180461 PS Ethics without ultimate reason?
• 180508 PS Introduction to ethic
• 190936 SE 5.10.3 Michel Foucault: Die Disziplinargesellschaft (Überwachen und Strafen)
• 180516 VO-L Philosophy of democracy

M-07 Technology and Media

• 180362 PS Size does matter - Close reading
• 180457 PS Introduction to Media Theory
• 180459 VO Code: Communication and Control
• 180518 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology

M-08 The Own and the Alien

• 010029 VO Intercultural Philosophy - Introduction into Latin American philosophy
• 180343 PS Europe as a Cultural Space
• 180383 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought
• 180400 VO-L Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy
• 180402 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction
• 180451 VO The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Philosophical Anthropology
• 180485 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
• 180486 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism
• 180513 VO [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant

3. Elective Modules

M-09 Language and Mind

• 180165 VO Mind, brain, behavior - An interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
• 180311 VO The Expression of Thought - Language in Frege and Wittgenstein
• 180353 SE Mind and brain - Ontology in the field of intellectual development
• 180394 SE Introduction to the Theory of Computability.
• 180494 VO [ de en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Mind

M-10 Art, Culture, Religion

• 010350 SE Seminar: main positions of philosophical criticism of religion
• 170224 VO "It's not just a game." - Theory of games in contemporary aesthetik and art contexts
• 180070 SE The question on god
• 180329 VO The Conception of God
• 180336 VO Aesthetics of film
• 180344 VO Elfriede Jelinek - An introduction
• 180345 SE Elfriede Jelinek - Central Topics of her Work
• 180384 VO Metaphysics of Art - The eclipse of the Ontological Argument for God's Existence and modern conjuncture of esthetic function (Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Mukarovsky, Malewitsch)
• 180391 SE IS Philosophy/Pedagogics: "Education - Semi-Education - lack of education"
• 180419 SE The concept of philosophy in Islam - The authority of Aristoteles on the opinion of Ibn Rushd(Averroes 12. cen.): Are Philosophy and Theologie contradictory?
• 180429 SE The critique of the Ars vivendi - Problems of Aesthetic Views on Life
• 180453 SE Seminar for Comparative Philosophy
• 180473 SE Philosophy and laughter
• 180487 SE [ en ] Chinese spirituality and psychotherapy

M-11 The Present

• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy
• 180143 SE Basic Writings of Phenomenology - Merleau-Ponty's Late Works
• 180359 SE Globalization - Battle between Cultures
• 180414 VO 20th Century Philosophy - Metaphysics and their Criticism
• 180427 SE Transfer(ence)
• 180482 VO The esoteric of philosophy of Heidegger

M-12 Applied Ethics

• 180385 VO Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises
• 180389 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180422 VO Ethic in Medicine
• 180424 SE Is there a Dignity of Human Embryos? - Der Begriff der Menschenwürde und seine Bedeutung für die zeitgenössische Diskussion um den ethischen Status befruchteter Eizellen
• 180474 SE What we must do and what we may do to keep you healthy? - Ethical problems in health promotion

M-13 Gender and Society

• 180348 VO Philosophy and Economies
• 180349 SE Philosophy and Economics
• 180368 SE The Seals of Sophia
• 180393 VO The History of Social Criticism - A historical-philosophical Description of Critical Theories in the 19th and 20th Century
• 180413 SE [ en ] Feminist Standpoint Theories
• 180421 SE Philosophies of Love
• 180423 SE Theories of Discourse
• 180428 PS Introduction to Marx's main work - On the logical and conceptual structure of Marx's analysis of cap - Zum logischen und begrifflichen Aufbau der Marxschen Kapitalanalyse
• 180512 PS System theory - philosophical implications

M-14 Human and Nature

• 180308 VO Knowledge Based Economy - ethical and epistemological implications
• 180355 PS Idea and future of man
• 180444 VO Anthropology
• 180452 VO Natural Philosophy and Natural Science - For Comparative Reflection and Interdisciplinary Education
• 180464 SE Biopolitics
• 180465 SE Better humans? Cyborgvisions, technoscientifical and ethical reflections

Enhanced curricula for students of other bachelor degree programms

EC 1 - Aesthetics and philosophy of culture

EC 1 - 1.1 Philosophy of language

• 180142 VO Introduction to Philosophy of language

EC 1 - 1.2 Theory of the media

• 180459 VO Code: Communication and Control

EC 1 - 1.3 Philosophy of media

• 180383 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought
• 180400 VO-L Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy
• 180402 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction

EC 1 - 1.4 Aesthetics

• 180336 VO Aesthetics of film
• 180344 VO Elfriede Jelinek - An introduction
• 180384 VO Metaphysics of Art - The eclipse of the Ontological Argument for God's Existence and modern conjuncture of esthetic function (Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Mukarovsky, Malewitsch)

EC 2 - Ehics

EC 2 - 1.1 Introduction to practical philosophy

• 180352 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy

EC 2 - 1.2 Ethics

• 180342 VO-L Theories of ethic

EC 2 - 1.3 Political and social philosophy

• 180348 VO Philosophy and Economies
• 180393 VO The History of Social Criticism - A historical-philosophical Description of Critical Theories in the 19th and 20th Century

EC 2 - 1.4 Philosophy of law and Moral philosophy

• 180172 VO Law and Justice

EC 2 - 1.5 Foundations of Applied ethics

• 180385 VO Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises
• 180422 VO Ethic in Medicine

EC 3 - Philosophicum

EC 3 - 1.1 History of ideas in philosophy

• 180068 VO History of Philosophical Ideas

EC 3 - 1.2 Introduction to theoretical philosophy

• 180310 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180330 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy

EC 3 - Introduction to practical philosophy

• 180352 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy

EC 3 - 1.4 Theory of the media

• 180459 VO Code: Communication and Control

EC 3 - 1.5 Intercultural philosophy

• 180383 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought
• 180400 VO-L Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy
• 180402 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction

EC 4 - Major philosophicum

EC 4 - 1.1 History of ideas in philosophy

• 180068 VO History of Philosophical Ideas

EC 4 - 1.2 Introduction to theoretical philosophy

• 180310 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy
• 180330 VO-L Introduction to Theoretical Philosophy

EC 4 - 1.3 Introduction to practical philosophy

• 180352 VO-L Introduction to Practical Philosophy

EC 4 - 1.4 Theory of media

• 180459 VO Code: Communication and Control

EC 4 - 1.5 Intercultural philosophy

• 180383 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought
• 180400 VO-L Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy
• 180402 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction

EC 4 - 2.1 History of philosophy I

• 180141 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180361 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

EC 4 - History of philosophy II

• 180371 VO-L History of Philosophy II (MIddle Ages and Early Modernity) - Major Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts

EC 4 - 2.3 History of philosophy III

• 180337 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - From Kant to Hegel

EC 5 - History of philosophy

EC 5 - 1.1 History of philosophy I

• 180141 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180361 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)

EC 5 - 1.2 History of philosphy II

• 180371 VO-L History of Philosophy II (MIddle Ages and Early Modernity) - Major Themes in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts

EC 5 - 1.3 History of philosophy III

• 180337 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century) - From Kant to Hegel