Other perspectives Kininigen Blog A truth can only be effective when the recipient is ready for it. Christian Morgenstern Man or person? None of that at all, but we are living, spiritually moral, rational beings. Isn't it all the same? Why did we choose this long and cumbersome term to describe what we perceive ourselves to be? Explaining the term person is not possible without an understanding of Roman law. When I wrote the article Collateral Account is a Debt, I believed that the issue of slavery was now closed. And yet this article, in which I wanted to show the difference between the terms human and person, led me back to Rome and the slavery associated with it. Because this concept of person, which is omnipresent in our lives, is inextricably linked to it and one cannot understand this concept if one does not examine its roots and origin. I'm afraid this post