ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that whilst it might be necessary to define HRD for political reasons, there is a strong case that HRD should not be defined on philosophical, theoretical, and practical grounds. I set the case for consid ering HRD (and life in general) as a continuous developing process and suggest that to proffer definitions of HRD is to misrepresent it as a thing of being rather than a process of becoming. I also suggest that in defining the field we additionally run the risk of disengaging from the moral and personal dimensions of HRD.
