https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2022.58.A.05
The aim of this essay is to highlight the logical connections between education, postmodernity and totalitarianism. It begins from the existence of an ontically diverse reality, an integral part of which is human life between different orders of existence, immanent (biopsychosocial) and transcendent (existential, metaphysical and religious), which enables man to become what he may and should be. Following Chantal Delsol’s account, it can be argued that in the darkness of transcendence – both in totalitarianism and today – man is reduced to his biopsychosocial conditions as a result of the absolutization of the inherent criteria for the legitimacy of what is immanent. Consequently, the world becomes a field for social experiments carried out by means of terror or, more subtly, of social engineering. Education appears then as man’s protection against the totalitarian potential of human collective existence, and therefore also against himself.
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Received: 04/03/2022. Reviewed: 08/04/2022. Accepted: 12/05/2022.
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