The maxim of Confucius, reminded at the workshop for PMBA participants by religious scholar, philosopher, and visiting professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Ihor Kozlovskyi, is present in one form or another in literally every religion: do not do to others what you do not want for yourself, be aware of your own mistakes, and be patient with the mistakes of others.

Participants of kmbs also recalled another sage: "Do not be a nobleman, a usurer, an alcaid, or a pygmy. Be only a human — do you hear? A human — and you will find good." This is what Hryhorii Skovoroda says. His words were also proposed for consideration at the workshop "Owner's Legacy: What Can Really Be Passed on to the Next Generation".

Be only a human; the advice seems simple, but the task is not easy, even if wrapped in the recommendations of sages. Sacred texts, — explained Ihor Anatoliiovych, — are a dialogue of a mature person with mystery. In such dialogues, the emphasis is on the way to form a person.

Ihor Kozlovskyi suggested that kmbs participants grow a person in three hours — a worthy family member, citizen, and businessman. Three working groups created the ideal "Family", "Community", "Business", using Confucius's hints.

The reflections of Ihor Kozlovskyi on the stages of human formation were useful to the working groups. From establishing a literal physical connection at the level of sensations through providing a positive example and forming values — to a connection at the level of feelings and a heartfelt connection. This scheme is implemented in raising a child, and it should be applied to the formation of a mature adult personality. The criterion of our development is always the Other, such an observer.

Morality cannot be established by law or force, but only through self-discipline. One of the rules of self-discipline is self-examination, honest self-study. Another is caution in solitude, one should adhere to moral norms even without external control. Creating not an ethical ritual for "external use", but an internal morality — this, in particular, means creating a person.

Armed and prepared in this way, the working groups set out to consider family, community, business.

During group work, sentences and questions flew into the common space of the audience, which would be envied by any philosophical congress: "To understand means to understand what is good and what is bad", "Changing yourself, you change another", "Achieve maturity by overcoming the inner barrier of uncertainty in your abilities, ignorance of your needs", "Have convictions? No, be able to reconcile them with the convictions of others", "How is it to be your own arbiter?", "Be able to do what you don't like if it is important for another, even if the other doesn't like it either", "Understand what we have the right to and are able to openly talk about it", "How to determine what we are ready to tolerate?". The discussion was intense, complex work continued, ultimately participants were looking for a way to transform a being into a subject.

Each working group defended a list of qualities, abilities, and virtues of a family member, citizen, businessman, respectively. Professor Kozlovskyi warned that the most difficult thing would be to collectively complement those lists. It is difficult for all of us to formulate what we consider too obvious. It is equally difficult to formulate something we know for sure but cannot talk about. All three lists obviously complemented each other, coinciding in many ways. But each of them had to be collectively supplemented with "love". Perhaps this is exactly what we know well but cannot talk about.

At the end of the work, Ihor Kozlovskyi explained the context of the exercise. During the workshop, kmbs participants created the ideal of Family, Community, Business, because it is the ideal that we leave as a legacy.

Workshop "Owner's Legacy": Passing Yourself on to Descendants as a Person