§ 3: First Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 3/1: Orientation Period

§ 3/2: Required Courses

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

• 010132 VO Ancient Philosophy
• 180049 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180052 VO-L History of Philosophy III -Kant and the German Idealism - Emotion, Instinct, Reason
• 180094 VO-L History of Philosophy I (Antiquity)
• 180096 VO-L History of Philosophy II (Middle Ages and Early Modernity) - Metaphysik and Ontologie concerning Avicenna and Thomas von Aquinas
• 180155 VO-L History of Philosophy III (Classical Modernity through the 19th Century)

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

• 180003 PS Gadamer, Truth and Method
• 180005 LPS Plato, Phaidon
• 180046 LPS Hölderlin's Hyperion and Nietzsche's Zarathustra
• 180055 PS Metaphysics and Criticism of Metaphysics
• 180097 PS Concepts of Metaphysics from Antiquity to 21st Century
• 180165 PS Personal Identity

§ 3/2/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 010035 VO Ethics I -Introduction into ethics
• 180045 LPS Kant - Critique of Practical Reason
• 180057 PS Introduction to Aristotle`s Ethics
• 180100 PS Metaethics and normative Ethics
• 180101 PS Practical Irrationality
• 180102 PS Max Scheler, The Formalism in Ethics and The Non-Formal Ethics of Values
• 180104 VO Elements of Applied Ethics - Elements of Applied Ethics - To identify key issues related to ethical issues, to identify and process solution-oriented To identify key issues related to ethical issues, to identify and process solution-oriented

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

• 010081 VO Free will - The current interdisciplinary debate
• 180014 LPS Ernst Cassirer - Between philosophy of science and philosophy of culture
• 180163 VO Introduction to Epistemology

§ 3/2/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180018 VO-GKL Basic Logic
• 180091 UE-GKL Exercise in Logic

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

• 180017 VO Philosophy of Language
• 180135 SE Classical Rhetoric and modern Language Pragmatics

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

• 030168 SE Federal States and Concepts of Federalism - Theoretical and Historical Perspective - for diploma and doctoral students
• 180020 LPS Political philosophy - Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 180154 VO Metaphysics and Ontology

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

• 180053 VO-L Metaphysics of human being - Ideas of human being from Platon to Plessner
• 180067 SE The nature of mind - Aristoteles, Plessner and the contemporary neurophilosophy
• 180074 SE Philosophical anthropology as general science - Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen und die philosophischen Folgen
• 180075 VO Philosophical Anthrpologie
• 180093 VO-L The subjective mind: Cognition, perception, and experience - Philosophy of mind, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis in dialogue
• 180156 SE Helmuth Plessner

§ 3/2/9 Aesthetics [Old Curriculum 8]

• 180070 VO-L Philosophy of modern art
• 180110 SE [ de en ] Nelson Goodman`s Languages of Art