Starting from a leibnizian unpublished writing. Interpretation and educational proposal by Umberto Margiotta

Abstract

This article is about the analysis and translation of an unpublished Leibniz by Umberto Margiotta. It is a little-known text but of great importance not only from the point of view of the history of education but also from that of the epistemology of training. The interest in Margiotta’s work on the Leibnizian Confession is born in relation to its hermeneutic key: an epistemological formative, which opens up spaces for reflection on the educational question of the present in comparison with the strategic gaze of one of the most original thinkers of Modernity. In the mid-eighties of the last century, the Italian scholar dedicated himself to the translation (from Latin) and interpretation of the short writing of the German philosopher and scientist to emphasize the emergence, in the dialogic form of the text, of the necessity of the Method. Educational research needs, to be effective, logical foundations that also assume an ethical value, since they outline the role of the human being in the order of the universe and place him in a position to choose and decide on the direction of his probable action. Hence the deep sense of responsibility that freedom has its raison d’être, a wonderful synthesis of Leibniz’s lesson on the meaning of the human in its essential relationship with the divine.