March 15, 2022 Author/Author: Ph.D.  Michelle Smith,  Deakin University Translator/Translator: Doan Thi Ngoc – Teacher-Lecturer, Hoa Sen University (HSU) The Oscars on television often do conventional work such as: having passionate speeches interwoven with melodious orchestral music, having winning opening monologues, and ensuring The duration is sufficient or exceeds the speaking time. But this year’s ceremony brings with it potential challenges to this conventional tradition. Before the #MeToo and #Times Up movements, people were still unclear about who would be welcomed at this solemn ceremony, what artists and act resses would wear on the red carpet, and what the results would be. Which bomb of...

June 12, 2022 MSc. Bui Nguyen Han Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hoa Sen University    Confucianism is a great doctrine, founded by Confucius and his students, followed by successors. It can be affirmed that Confucianism is not a religion if understood purely in terms of this concept. Rather, this is a doctrine with a profound influence on the history of Chinese thought and culture.     Confucius is the founder of Confucianism. His ideas were not used much when he was alive. Only after his death were his ideas considered the pillars for building and ruling the feudal regime. His influence in particular and...

June 12, 2022 MSc Bui Nguyen Han Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences During the Nguyen Dynasty, Confucianism was considered an ideological pillar. Therefore, Confucianism has a strong influence on political activities, ideology, religion, and concepts of moral values​​, and to some extent, it has influence and influence on the spiritual life god – the view of life of scholars, mandarins and the people. Influenced by Confucianism, Chinese academics and mandarins and the Confucian cultural values ​​of previous feudal dynasties in Vietnam, mandarins and scholars of the Nguyen Dynasty lived in the land of Thuan. Turned out or was sent...

June 12, 2022 Dr. Duong Ngoc Dung Director of Philosophy Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hoa Sen University Many students who are interested in philosophy often ask me the following questions: 1-Where should I start to study philosophy? 2-What method to study philosophy? 3-Does studying philosophy require any special talent? 4-Which philosophers, should we focus on? This article will focus on answering the above questions. Of course, even practicing massage or cooking requires talent. Because not everyone naturally can relax people’s bodies or prepare attractive dishes. But if you think that philosophy is only for intellectual geniuses and people with special gifts, that...

June 16, 2022 Dr. Duong Ngoc Dung Director of Philosophy Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hoa Sen University If we have the opportunity to follow the modern historical philosophical works of famous authors such as Hayden White, Robert F. Berkhofer, Barbara Tuchman, David McCullough, Louis Mink, Fredrich Jameson, Herbert J. Mueller, Paul Ricoeur, WH Walsh, Lucas M. Gisi, most of which have never been introduced or discussed in Vietnamese academic circles, we often see the above authors emphasizing the close relationship between literature and history. Historical works, from their point of view, often use, without realizing it, literary narrative tools when presenting...

June 16, 2022 Dr. Duong Ngoc Dung Director of Philosophy Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hoa Sen University A great German philosopher, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century philosophers, Martin Heidegger, observed that man is a “living death” (Sein zum Tode). People only live authentically when they are aware that they are on a journey back to their most fundamental source, which is death. Since ancient times, few people have not trembled at the thought of this end, except for perhaps the heroic heroes who proudly declared, “Life is from the ancient lobes to death/The hand and heart shine brightly” (Nhan Born...