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Philosophy & Life: A View from Vietnam

One of Vietnam’s leading academic philosophers Vu Tinh describes the role of philosophy in his country and in the world at large.

The natural sciences and technology have developed rapidly and successfully. This has directly produced a great impact on the lives of human beings. We do ask how this affects the most general, abstract science, philosophy? What is philosophy’s role and how can we distinguish it from the natural sciences?

In fact, the development of any science could not exist on its own but always in relation to others. It always relates to philosophy and human actions. In looking back at the history of the human, we know that human beings appeared about four million years ago.

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