Jr. Res. Dr. Sebastijan Pešec

Sebastijan Pešec is a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He joined the department in 2023 as a member of the project “Buddhism in the Himalayan Deserts: The Tradition of Yogis and Yoginis in Ladakh.” He is also a member of the research program “Philosophical Research” and the start-up research program “History of humanities in Slovenia: internationalisation of literary studies, philology, and comparative literature.”

At the undergraduate level, he pursued a double major in Philosophy and History. His philosophy thesis is titled Beyond Diaphora: Diaphoric Theory in Relation to Jung, Freud, and Schopenhauer, while his history thesis is titled Nietzsche’s View of History. He continued with a master’s program in philosophy, completing his MA with the thesis Ziran or How to Become What You Are: Daoism and Nietzsche, and earned his PhD with the dissertation Ethical Sensibility in Nietzsche and the Daoists.

In addition to the philosophies of Nietzsche and Daoism, his research also includes the philosophy—and especially the ethics—of Vajrayana Buddhism; the meditative and tantric practices of the Kagyu school; the history of Ladakh; environmental ethics, particularly Vajrayana Buddhist environmental ethics; philosophical anthropology; and the history of the humanities in Slovenia.