Università Roma Tre

12 CFU PROGRAMME:
The course looks at the concepts of consciousness and world in the philosophies of Leibniz and Husserl, keeping in mind some guiding notions: body/mind/virtuality, mechanism/teleology, substance/monad, epochè/eidos

MODULE A 6 CFU:

Module A has an introductory value to eighteenth-century classical German philosophy and will focus in particular on the view of reason in Leibniz.
The concepts of matter, substance, memory, virtuality and innate ideas will be illustrated, underlining the Leibnizian polemic against the Lockian sensualism.

MODULE B 6 CFU:
Module B aims to examine the concepts of natural consciousness and phenomenological consciousness in Husserl by privileging the notions of body, perception, habit, unconscious on the one hand and phenomenological epoché, noesis, hyle, noema, pure self on the other.

C) A reading seminar will be an integral part of the course.
In order to develop skills of analysis and textual criticism the course includes a seminar of textual reading of the essay G.W. Leibniz, I principi razionali della natura e della Grazia, Bompiani, Milano, pp. 35-57 (This essay is contained in the volume Monadologia by Bompiani).

The reading seminar is open to all students, both those who are required to take 6 cfu and those who are required to take 12 cfu.

G. W. Leibniz, New Essays on the Human Understanding, Preface, Bompiani, Milan
G.W. Leibniz, Monadology, Bompiani, Milan, Italy.
Edmund Husserl, The Fundamental Problems of Phenomenology. Lectures on the natural concept of the world, Quodlibet, Macerata.
Edmund Husserl, Lectures on Active Synthesis, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan