Excited to be attending the next meeting on Heidegger and Derrida tomorrow.  We will be looking at Derrida’s introduction to his translation of Husserl’s geometry book.

That makes me think of when Heidegger says “in Leibniz’s sense, a ratio sufficiens, a sufficient reason, isn’t at all a ground capable of supporting a being so that it doesn’t straightaway fall into nothing. A sufficient reason is one that reaches and offers to beings that which puts them in the position of fulfilling their full essence, that is, perfectio.” I interpret Heidegger here to mean an increase in reason lets the entity appear more and more perfectly/completely. For example, a right angle triangle is going to appear very differently to (1) a young child learning her shapes, and conversely to (2) a teenager learning the Pythagorean theorem, and finally (3) a university geometry professor teaching a unit on the history of the geometric and algebraic proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. It’s difficult to see reason allowing beings to fulfill their essence directly, but in the above example with the “difference” between neophyte (child learner), apprentice (teenage learner), and master (expert professor) we can phenomenalize it or coax it out of hiddenness.

The meeting starts at 8:30am ET if anyone is interested.

Here is the Zoom Link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/95402517706