Università Roma Tre

The course considers the meanings of activity and passivity of consciousness in Leibniz and Husserl and it highlights their common views, with a particular focus on the second book of Leibniz’ New Essays on Human Understanding, which is dedicated to the formation of ideas, on the dialogue with the Lockean sensualism and on how Husserl conceives the concepts of passive and active synthesis. It will be also analyzed the role of the virtual, the memory and the attention in the two philosophies.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Nuovi Saggi sull’intelletto umano, Milano, Bompiani 2011 (Secondo Libro)
Edmund Husserl, Lezioni sulle sintesi passive, Guerini, Milano 1993
Enzo Paci, Il problema della monadologia da Leibniz a Husserl per una concezione scientifica e umana della società: lezioni dell’Anno accademico 1975-76, a cura di Silvana Merati, Cuem, Milano 1976.
Vincenzo Costa, Husserl, Carocci, Roma 2009.