Winter semester 2024/25

• Plato’s Republic
• An Introduction to Animal Ethics
• Theories of Anti-Semitism

Summer semester 2024

• Karl Marx: Capital
• Introduction to Animal Ethics
• Free Will (Incompatibilism, Margin Compatibilism, Origin Compatibilism and Scepticism)
• Recent Contributions to the Ethical Foundations of Critical Theory

Winter semester 2023/24

• Karl Marx: Capital
• Free Will and Determinism
• An Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis

Summer semester 2023

• Free Will and Determinism
• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• Introduction to Philosophical Ethics
• Key Works of Critical Theory

Winter semester 2022/23

• Plato’s Republic
• Doubt in the Thought of René Descartes and David Hume
• The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

Summer Semester 2022

• Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Animals Like Us: Why We Have Moral Obligations Towards Animals

Winter semester 2021/22

• Doubt in the Thought of René Descartes and David Hume
• Plato’s Republic
• Karl Marx: Capital, Volume 1

Summer semester 2021

• Introduction to Contract Theory
• Bernard Bolzano: On the Best State

Winter semester 2020/21

• Doubt in the Thought of René Descartes and David Hume
• Jürgen Habermas’s Discourse Ethics
• Martha C. Nussbaum: Limits of Justice

Summer semester 2020

• Plato’s Republic
• The Loss of Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre)
• Max Horkheimer: A Critique of Instrumental Reason

Winter semester 2019/20

• Introduction to Epistemology
• Karl Marx: Capital (continued)
• Jürgen Habermas’s Discourse Ethics

Summer semester 2019

• Karl Marx: Capital, Volume 1
• Introduction to Contractualism

Winter semester 2018/19

• Doubt in the Thought of René Descartes and David Hume
• An Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis

Summer semester 2018

• An Introduction to Philosophical Ethics
• Contemporary Theories of Alienation
• The Phenomenon of the Masses (Canetti, Gasset, Le Bon, Tarde)
• The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

Winter semester 2017/18

• Plato’s Republic
• Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason
• The Sophists in Plato
• David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Summer Semester 2017

• Ludwig Feuerbach: The Essence of Christianity
• Ethical Foundations of Critical Theory

Winter semester 2016/17

• An Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
• Karl Marx, *Capital*, Volume 1, continued

Summer semester 2016

• Morality and Law in Kant
• Philosophy of Mass Society
• Karl Marx: Capital, Volume 1

Winter semester 2015/16

• Plato’s Republic
• Theories of Community
• Philosophical Colloquium

Summer semester 2015

• Classics of Contract Theory: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
• Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason
• Adorno: On the Doctrine of History and Freedom
• Philosophy Colloquium

Winter semester 2014/15

• An Introduction to Adorno’s Social Philosophy
• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• Plato’s Republic
• Philosophy Colloquium

Summer Semester 2014

• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• Hannah Arendt – *Vita activa* or *On the Active Life*
• Philosophical Colloquium

Winter semester 2013/14

• Justice – How We Do the Right Thing
• The Philosophy of Economics in Hegel and Honneth
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations (in collaboration with Associate Professor Dr Hans-Georg Bensch and Dr Ingo Elbe)

Summer Semester 2013

• Pierre Bourdieu – an introduction
• Communitarianism, Liberalism and Libertarianism
• Marx and Marxism

Winter semester 2012/13

• An Introduction to the Theory of the Social Contract – from Hobbes to Rawls
• Axel Honneth – The Right to Freedom

Winter semester 2012/13

Marx and Marxism (with Prof. Dr Thomas Bedorf)

Summer Term 2010 and Winter Semester 2010/11

Research Skills for Philosophy Students – Reading Philosophical Texts and Writing Written Exams and Seminar Papers

Summer term 2009 and winter semester 2009/10

Introduction to Theoretical and Practical Philosophy