Knowledge, meditation, surrender: the addicted educator
How does education serves as an ontotheological principle?
Knowledge, meditation, surrender: the addicted educator
21 May 2025, 17:30 – 19:15
Sunny Dhillon will discuss how education serves as an ontotheological principle (disenchanting being by reducing the highest good as knowable through ratiocination) to salve an existential chasm, and the juxtaposition between the ego driven activity of academic knowledge production with experiential wisdom facilitated by altered states of consciousness.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in the role of education and philosophy of education.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online. To book your place, please email Yuxin Su: stnvysu@ucl.ac.uk.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Sunny Dhillon
Senior Lecturer in Education Studies
Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU), Lincoln (UK)
Sunny conducted his doctoral research on the concept of utopia through the works of Friedrich W Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch and Theodor W Adorno.
Sunny’s research interests include Critical Theory (The Frankfurt School), Nietzsche, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Utopia, and Philosophy of Education.
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Cost
Free
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