crates | March 14, 2009
Plutarch tells the following: An old man in the Olympic games being desirous to see the sport, and unprovided of a seat, went about from place to place, was laughed and jeered at, but none offered him the civility; but when he came to the Spartans’ quarter, all the boys and some of the men rose [...]
crates | March 9, 2009
I’m sure that most people have thought about this question at one time or another. The answer that a person arrives at will determine his attitude towards various practices in our society. Does a person become a person at fertilization of the egg? We know that the oocyte is alive and that the spermatozoan is [...]
crates | February 24, 2009
I got to wondering what people mean when they say that a person is good. I’m not sure why I started wondering about this. I think it is because somebody told me that I was a good person on the same day that somebody told me that I was a despicable person. The latter person [...]