Ontologia e riduzione

(Ontology and Reduction)

Abstract

Traditionally, Husserlian phenomenology is thought to bring the question of reality and being back to the question of reduction, and thereby to the status of objectivity. In other words, reality is an attribute of pure objectivity constituted in the immanence of consciousness. For this reason, Husserl has often been accused of idealism. Nonetheless, we have to go deeper into the relation between consciousness and being, subjectivity and reality, in order to understand its authentic sense. We will discover that if reduction is the condition of possibility of reality, it is not, however, its active creation. Rather, it brings to light the genetic and temporal fold of constitution, wherein passivity and activity always intertwine. Stating that there cannot be any ontology without reduction ultimately means that being cannot be thought without temporality.