E. Diploma Degree Programme in Philosophy

§ 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

§ 4: Second Stage of the Degree Programme

§ 4/1 Required Courses

§ 4/1/1 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)

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

• 180002 SE Suffering and its forms of intelligibility in Plato and Michel Henry
• 180006 SE Plato, The dialogue Sophistes
• 180075 VO Philosophical Anthrpologie
• 180077 VO-L Metaphysics and Ontology - Heidegger: Sein und Zeit
• 180080 SE Intentionality and its prerequisite conditions II
• 180153 SE Metaphysics and Ontology

§ 4/1/3 Ethics [Old Curriculum 4]

• 180058 VO-L Classic of practical philosophy
• 180060 SE Ethics - Critique of practical Reason
• 180072 VO-L Palliative Care and Euthanasia
• 180073 SE Fundamentals of natural ethics
• 180103 SE Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as First Philosophy
• 180114 SE Environmental ethics and biocultural diversity - Positionen und Argumente
• 180121 SE fundamental questions of existence analysis
• 180122 SE Hegel: Preface to the" Phenomenology of Spirit"
• 180129 SE Weakness of will
• 180143 SE Aging-Disease-Dying - Philosophical, medical and ethical problems in geriatrics
• 180168 SE Thomas Auqinas, on ethical behavior

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

• 010081 VO Free will - The current interdisciplinary debate
• 180008 VO Truth
• 180012 SE [ en ] Reason and the Passions in Action
• 180013 VO [ en ] Intellectual Virtue
• 180080 SE Intentionality and its prerequisite conditions II
• 180159 SE Realistic phenomenology: A philosophical project
• 180166 SE [ en ] Personal Identity

§ 4/1/5 Logics [Old Curriculum 7]

• 180109 VO Philosophical Logics
• 180117 SE Philosophical and formal truth theories

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

• 180140 VO The Theory of Evolution - its philosophical foundations and implications
• 260104 SE [ de en ] Quantum physics without formalism - Interdisciplinary seminar of quantum physics

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

• 180107 SE Reading Chinese Philosophy - Daodejing - Daodejing
• 180108 VO-L Philosophy in Latin America (Argentinien, Chile, Paraguay) - Identity, Comparison, Interaction between Latin American and European
• 180137 VO-L Heidegger and the East Asian thinking
• 180138 SE Concept of Time in Dogen and St. Augustine

§ 4/2: Required Elective Courses

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

• 180071 SE Hume, Feuerbarck, Marx, Freud
• 180084 SE The Question of God - Gottesbeweise
• 180095 SE Kant
• 180115 VO-L Feminist Philosophy of Religion - An Introduction

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

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

• 180015 SE Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch
• 180026 SE Modern Political Utopism
• 180028 SE Judith Butler - Frames of War
• 180030 PJ+SE Butler - Laclau - Zizek: Translation and Workshop - Übersetzung und Workshop
• 180061 SE Platos Politeia
• 180062 VO-L Practical rationality
• 180063 SE Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution of Society
• 180078 SE John R. Searle`s social ontology
• 180099 VO-L Critique of fetishism:Critique of fetishism - cognitive and ideological criticism in Western Marxism
• 180116 PS Gender and Subversion - Irony, Parody, Laughter
• 180136 SE Aristotle, Politics
• 180139 SE Michel Foucault: "The History of Sexuality"

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

• 180115 VO-L Feminist Philosophy of Religion - An Introduction

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

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

• 180010 PJ+SE Multimedia Philosophie: Film, Podcast, Videoclips
• 180021 SE Seminar Philosophy of Science I - Basics, theoretical and practical aspects of philosophy of science
• 180022 SE Philosophy of Science - Wissensgenerierung und Modellbildung in der Wissenschaft
• 180023 VO [ en ] Cognitive Science -- Introduction and Basic Concepts
• 180027 SE The technical object - Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
• 180059 EK Methods and Problems in History and Philosophy of Science
• 180064 VO-L Technology and Philosophie of open access
• 180105 VO-L A New Kind of Science? - Philosophy in the Von-Neumann-Galaxy

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

• 180065 SE Science&Fiction
• 180106 SE Philosophy of media: Reading the classics

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

• 180112 SE [ de fr ] Phenomenology into France in the 20th century
• 180135 SE Classical Rhetoric and modern Language Pragmatics
• 180139 SE Michel Foucault: "The History of Sexuality"

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

• 180025 SE Norbert Elias and the Theory of Civilisation
• 180086 VO-L Lecture Series: The Forgotten Body in Philosophy - Philosophy On Stage
• 180111 SE [ de en ] Theodor W. Adorno`s musical writings
• 180118 SE [ en ] Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel) - Jewish Renaissance Philosophy of Love

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

• 180066 VO-L Philosophical Hermeneutics - Intercultural Hermeneutics
• 180137 VO-L Heidegger and the East Asian thinking
• 180138 SE Concept of Time in Dogen and St. Augustine
• 180154 VO Metaphysics and Ontology

§ 4/2/5 Project Seminar

• 180030 PJ+SE Butler - Laclau - Zizek: Translation and Workshop - Übersetzung und Workshop
• 180081 SE Philosophy of mind: brains and persons

§ 2/5: Courses in a foreign Language

• 180001 GV Greek Terminology
• 180012 SE [ en ] Reason and the Passions in Action
• 180013 VO [ en ] Intellectual Virtue
• 180047 GV Greek Terminology
• 180048 GV Greek Terminology
• 180160 SE [ en ] Dissertation Seminar in Knowledge Technologies, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of Science