Eastern Philosophical Theories and Marxism-Lenin Philosophies in Viet Nam Society and Education

Abstract

Eastern philosophies esp. Buddhism philosophies has affected Vietnam society and eastern nations through many years. This study will hence use dialectical materialism concept combined with qualitative analysis including synthesis and inductive methods. Among values of Buddhism philosophies is that building peace instead of war for nations and human being. Next, Marxism- Lenin philosophies also show progressive ideologies to construct society better. (Van der Walt et al., 2014) stated that dialectics has been considered as a model by Marx (for development stages), and he considered it (Dialectical materialism) as his metaphysical perspective, a framework for history. Last but not least, our study showed that (Engels:, 1995,) has contributed much with his dialectical materialism philosophy that can be applied in many sciences nowadays. And (Lenin:, 2005, )as a learner of (Engels:, 1995,), hence, he developed it for Russia society development and revolution.