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Scientific Study from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Institut für Rechtsphilosophie, Religions- und Kulturrecht), course: Against "white"-washing shadows of philosophers in ethics lectures/courses, language: English, abstract: At universities, students are often presented (almost) "semi-divine" personalities, be it KANT, be it HEGEL, be it HUME, be it other important, influencial thinkers, especially in the field of - so called - "ethics", be it e.g. so called "management ethics", be it so called "legal ethics". Some of these students are simply one thing: fed up with the way of in fact almost "gloryfying" (!) these men. It remains the job of at least some people to at least partially critically (re-)think what and how things are presented to students. Vienna, a city of critically thinking men and women? Vienna, a city, in which e.g. Immanuel KANT is (also!) presented in a (more) critical manner, e.g. with respect to KANT's "views" e.g. on women, Afro-americans, Jews? Vienna, a city, in which also a so called "faculty of law" exists in which (some!) legal philosophers - nothwithstanding the fact, that many of them would in fact wish to change some ways and words of presenting e.g. KANT, HEGEL, or ROUSSEAU to students - simply, contrary to a sometimes "I-am-willing-to-change-something" "rhetorics"- do not change anything in the direction e.g. of also informing students at least about the existence of Prof Dr Anton Wilhelm AMO, a contemporary of e.g. Immanuel KANT, a man who had to suffer so many prejudices, who tought at universities, nothwithstanding racial, (partially) hatred-filled, boastful, texts, spoken and unspoken words. Why not mention e.g. him for instance in the Viennese "Einführungsskripten" (introductory scripts to law), also e.g. the script of a corresponding member of the AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Prof Dr Gerhard LUF, a man also educated and gifted in a