ABSTRACT
This chapter considers an individual teacher's immortal role in offering resistance in pedagogic encounters that could further enhance the venture of embarking on a pilgrimage through teaching and learning. For an explication of the idea of individual immortality and how it potentially offers resistance through teaching. The chapter discusses Baruch Spinoza's idea of human well-being, which is grounded in an individual's pursuit of cultivating humanity. Following Spinoza, Parkinson explains that humans' actions are necessitated in two ways: through their own conatus or endeavours and through external causes. Central to Spinoza's treatise is how the individual might live his or her best life, what is necessary in order for the individual to be happy, live well and flourish. For Spinoza, teaching is therefore neither individualistic nor egotistical or insular. In this sense, the potentiality of the individual to attain self-fulfilment and flourishing depends on his or her capacity to act from his or her own power, vitality and inner natures.
