Amazing Thinkers & Humanitarians: B2
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Katerina Mestheneou. Amazing Thinkers & Humanitarians: B2
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Amazing People Club®
THE GRADING SCHEME
Confucius
The Life of Confucius
Socrates
The Life of Socrates
Aristotle
The Life of Aristotle
William Wilberforce
The Life of William Wilberforce
Karl Marx
The Life of Karl Marx
Mahatma Gandhi
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
GLOSSARY
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The Grading Scheme
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In 518 BCE, I left my job and spent my time reading and teaching. My aim was to encourage and motivate my students, not just to tell them what was right and wrong. It didn’t matter to me who my students were or what social class they belonged to, I just loved teaching. This was unusual because at that time, education was something only the rich had access to. My approach seemed to be popular because it wasn’t long before I had a large number of followers – people who supported me and believed in what I was saying. I decided to travel to the imperial capital of China, Lo-yang, so that I could learn about the customs and traditions of the empire. Then, in 517 BCE, when I had come back, the state of Lu was involved in war and I left again, along with the Duke of Lu, and went to a neighbouring state called Qi. Here I learnt about music. The next period of my life was spent with my followers and I was also a teacher.
At the age of 51 in 500 BCE, I became the Justice Minister of the state. This was a job that required balance between the law and politics and I saw myself not as an inventor of the law but a messenger of it. In each case I listened to, all the facts had to be collected, and then interpreted and applied. I believed that having a moral viewpoint, rather than just following the law, was vital. People would ask me if we needed laws. My answer was that if people always behaved well to each other, then that would be enough, and no, it was not necessary to have laws. But people can be greedy and unfair, wanting more than their fair share, in which case, society cannot function without laws.
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