Summer term 2024

• Ernst Cassirer: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (continued)

Winter semester 2023/24

• Ernst Cassirer: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

Summer term 2023

• Aristotle: De anima (continuation)
• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

Winter semester 2022/23

• Aristotle: De anima
• Kant: Critique of Pure Reason

Summer term 2022

• Hannah Arendt: Vita activa (continued)
• Humans and animals: basic positions and current issues in animal ethics

Winter semester 2021/22

• Hannah Arendt: Vita activa

Summer term 2021

• Animal ethics and animal philosophy: basics, contexts and perspectives

Winter semester 2020/21

• Objectivity and truth

Summer semester 2020

• Fashion, body and consumption

Winter semester 2019/20

• Aristotle: On the soul

Summer semester 2019

• Introduction to the existential philosophy of Heinrich Barth (1890-1965)

Winter semester 2018/19

• Reason - a toothless tiger?

Summer semester 2018

• An animal history of philosophy - from Plato's chariot of the soul to animal ethics and human-animal studies

Winter semester 2017/18

• Recognising, knowing, understanding

Summer term 2017

• The dream of wilderness: From naturalistic wood trails, cultural inventions and environmental ethical challenges

Winter semester 2016/17

• The path to modernity - Renè Descartes

Summer semester 2016

• Animal ethics: history, positions, perspectives

Winter semester 2015/16

• Of consciousness traps and fantasies - body and soul in the focus of controversial approaches in natural science, philosophy and theology

Summer semester 2015

• Individual and community

Winter semester 2014/15

• What is truth? Introduction to the discussion of the concept of truth (from Socrates to Hannah Arendt)