[lit-ideas] Re: SOS or Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:11:26 -0700

Omar Kusturica wrote:

*I thought my last post pretty clearly modified the
previous claim that definitions were indispensible to
ESL teaching. I indicated the other procedures that I
use, and I also indicated that many of these
procedures do not amount to giving formal definitions.
I also suggested that most terms can be explained
without using a formal definition, but it's not clear
how "the self" could be explained. I am not sure where
the misunderstanding resides now.

Omar, I'm sure there's no longer any serious misunderstanding. All of my responses to you were in response to what you first wrote:

'Maybe it's because of my work current work as an ESL
instructor that I am a bit skeptical about the
effectiveness of discussions that do not introduce
precise definitions.'

In my second reply to you (the one about the dog) I was still under the impression that this skepticism remained. Thanks for clearing things up. You and John McCreery live in different time zones than I do, and that perhaps may account for my not getting everything the first time around.

Robert Paul
Reed College
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