C. Diploma Programme Philosophy

§ 3: First Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 3/1: Introductory Phase

• 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
• 180390 LPS Reading Course - Basic Writings of Philosophy: David Hume and Immanuel Kant
• 180392 LPS Reading Course - Learning to Philosophize
• 180404 IK Introduction to Scientific Work in Philosophy

§ 3/2: Compulsory Courses

§ 3/2/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy
• 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
• 180414 VO 20th Century Philosophy - Metaphysics and their Criticism
• 180482 VO The esoteric of philosophy of Heidegger

§ 3/2/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 010135 VO Metaphysics - (§ 3/2/2 and § 4/1/2)
• 180332 VO-L Logics and metaphysics
• 180431 LPS Reading Course - Aristotle: Metaphysics
• 180437 VO-L An Outline of the System of Philosophy
• 180460 PS The World as will and power
• 180483 PS The Apology of Socrates

§ 3/2/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180342 VO-L Theories of ethic
• 180386 PS Ethics
• 180415 PS [ fr ] The moral reflection in the french philosophy
• 180461 PS Ethics without ultimate reason?
• 180508 PS Introduction to ethic

§ 3/2/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180165 VO Mind, brain, behavior - An interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
• 180362 PS Size does matter - Close reading
• 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
• 180448 SE Transcendentalphilosophy - Basic approaches and problems
• 180457 PS Introduction to Media Theory

§ 3/2/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 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

§ 3/2/6 Linguistic Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180142 VO Introduction to Philosophy of language
• 180311 VO The Expression of Thought - Language in Frege and Wittgenstein

§ 3/2/7 Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of Politics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180125 LPS Reading Course - Plato II - The statesman
• 180172 VO Law and Justice
• 180343 PS Europe as a Cultural Space
• 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

§ 3/2/8 Philosophical Anthropology [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180306 SE From place to space - The spatial turn in the anthropology
• 180355 PS Idea and future of man
• 180444 VO Anthropology

§ 3/2/9 Aesthetics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 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)

§ 4: Second Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 4/1 Compulsory Courses

§ 4/1/1 History of Philosophy [Old Curriculum 2]

• 010351 VO Contemporary philosophy
• 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
• 180414 VO 20th Century Philosophy - Metaphysics and their Criticism
• 180482 VO The esoteric of philosophy of Heidegger

§ 4/1/2 Metaphysics [Old Curriculum 3]

• 010135 VO Metaphysics - (§ 3/2/2 and § 4/1/2)
• 180353 SE Mind and brain - Ontology in the field of intellectual development
• 180356 SE J.G. Fichte: Doctrine of Science 1811
• 180363 SE The Notion and its Genesis in Hegel¿s Science of Logic - Relation of Causality, Reciprocity and the Beginning of the Subjective Logic
• 180418 SE Aristotle's Metaphysics book Zeta - The problem of substance in book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics
• 180426 SE [ en ] Analytic Social Ontology
• 180438 SE Logic and Metaphysics - Schelling's Phlosophy of Existence
• 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
• 180443 SE Metaphysics - The Question of Time
• 180455 SE Time: a philosophical problem
• 180494 VO [ de en ] Introduction to Philosophy of Mind

§ 4/1/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180341 PV Practical philosophy (Justice)
• 180354 SE Wherefore we must - Ontology in the field of Moral-Philosophy
• 180385 VO Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises
• 180420 SE Lévinas - Ethic as "first Philosophy" 2
• 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
• 180449 SE Acknowleging - A fundamental category. A fundamental category to ethics, social & polit. philosophy
• 180450 SE Towards Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics
• 180474 SE What we must do and what we may do to keep you healthy? - Ethical problems in health promotion
• 180475 SE Moral for politics? - Conceptions of applied ethics
• 180484 SE Conceptions of evil in Augustinus, Kant and Hannah Arendt

§ 4/1/4 Epistemology [Old Curriculum 6]

• 180311 VO The Expression of Thought - Language in Frege and Wittgenstein
• 180339 SE Philosophy as Methodology - The Pragmatism of Charles S. Peirce
• 180430 VO Descartes
• 180456 SE [ en ] Devastating Tropes and Deceiving Senses - Scepticism in the Early Modern Period (SE)
• 180477 SE The methodology of consuetudimarily sinic medicine

§ 4/1/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180351 SE The logic and mathematic of Charles S. Peirce
• 180394 SE Introduction to the Theory of Computability.

§ 4/1/6 Philosophy of Nature [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180452 VO Natural Philosophy and Natural Science - For Comparative Reflection and Interdisciplinary Education

§ 4/1/7 Extra-European Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180383 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought
• 180402 VO Philosophy in Latin America - Identity, comparasion and interaction
• 180451 VO The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Philosophical Anthropology
• 180453 SE Seminar for Comparative Philosophy
• 180485 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
• 180486 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism
• 180487 SE [ en ] Chinese spirituality and psychotherapy
• 180513 VO [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
• 180514 SE [ de es ] Hermeneutical interpretations: O. Paz, F. Schleiermacher, W. v. Humboldt
• 180515 SE [ de es ] Philosophy of history

§ 4/2: Compulsory Elective Courses

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of Religion [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010350 SE Seminar: main positions of philosophical criticism of religion
• 180070 SE The question on god
• 180329 VO The Conception of God
• 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?

§ 4/2/1 Philosophy of History [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180515 SE [ de es ] Philosophy of history

§ 4/2/2 Social Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180393 VO The History of Social Criticism - A historical-philosophical Description of Critical Theories in the 19th and 20th Century
• 180441 SE [ en ] Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon - Racism, Neo-Colonialism
• 180464 SE Biopolitics
• 180511 LPS Reading Course - J.J. Rousseau: Social contract
• 190936 SE 5.10.3 Michel Foucault: Die Disziplinargesellschaft (Überwachen und Strafen)
• 180516 VO-L Philosophy of democracy

§ 4/2/2 Philosophical Women's and Gender Research [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180368 SE The Seals of Sophia
• 180413 SE [ en ] Feminist Standpoint Theories
• 180421 SE Philosophies of Love
• 180423 SE Theories of Discourse

§ 4/2/3 Economic Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180308 VO Knowledge Based Economy - ethical and epistemological implications
• 180348 VO Philosophy and Economies
• 180349 SE Philosophy and Economics
• 180385 VO Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - The economical, ecological and social responsability of enterprises

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology [Old Curriculum 5]

• 180433 VO Theory of Science
• 180459 VO Code: Communication and Control
• 180463 SE Historism and Critique of Historical Reason - Towards Philosophy of Social,Cultural & Human Sciences
• 180465 SE Better humans? Cyborgvisions, technoscientifical and ethical reflections
• 180478 SE Introduction to historical Epistemology
• 180488 SE Thinking in Open Systems: Cognition, Emotion and Transdisciplinarien Approaches
• 180518 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology

§ 4/2/3 Philosophy of the Media [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180115 SE Recent Media of Theories - Projectseminar

§ 4/2/4 Hermeneutics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180143 SE Basic Writings of Phenomenology - Merleau-Ponty's Late Works
• 180513 VO [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
• 180514 SE [ de es ] Hermeneutical interpretations: O. Paz, F. Schleiermacher, W. v. Humboldt

§ 4/2/4 Philosophy of Culture [Old Curriculum 8]

• 170224 VO "It's not just a game." - Theory of games in contemporary aesthetik and art contexts
• 180262 SE Walking through the city - Philosophical inquiries from peripatos to drifting
• 180391 SE IS Philosophy/Pedagogics: "Education - Semi-Education - lack of education"
• 180427 SE Transfer(ence)
• 180429 SE The critique of the Ars vivendi - Problems of Aesthetic Views on Life
• 180467 SE The multi-cultural question: Politics of Identity, Difference and Recognition
• 180473 SE Philosophy and laughter
• 180517 SE Nieztsche and Indian Thought - The Influence of Paul Deussen on Nietzsches`s Philosophy

§ 4/2/4 Intercultural Philosophy [Old Curriculum 8]

• 010029 VO Intercultural Philosophy - Introduction into Latin American philosophy
• 180359 SE Globalization - Battle between Cultures
• 180400 VO-L Human nature and freedom of will - The interpretation of human being in eastern & western philosophy

§ 4/2/5 Project Seminar

• 180115 SE Recent Media of Theories - Projectseminar
• 180312 SE Project-Module - Socrates
• 180468 SE [ en ] Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab: Observing, Reflecting and Creating Radically New Knowledge - [Project Seminar in Philosophy of Science 2]
• 180470 UE [ en ] Exercise Course for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Lab - Project Seminar in Philosophy of Science 2

§ 2/5: Courses in a Foreign Language

• 180403 UE Greek Terminology
• 180413 SE [ en ] Feminist Standpoint Theories
• 180415 PS [ fr ] The moral reflection in the french philosophy
• 180426 SE [ en ] Analytic Social Ontology
• 180441 SE [ en ] Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon - Racism, Neo-Colonialism
• 180485 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
• 180486 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism
• 180487 SE [ en ] Chinese spirituality and psychotherapy
• 180513 VO [ de es ] Octavio Paz: Looking for the instant
• 180519 UE Greek Terminology