PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTATION IN NGUYEN KHAI'S NOVELS

Abstract

Religion is considered to be among many themes extracted from experience in both the life and the writing career of Nguyen Khai. With great interest in this field and with a flexible look, he has made an in-depth investigation into a realistic domain which is not easy to be apprehended. According to the him, if religion is considered to be a human act that inclines towards righteousness and that the need for religious beliefs is natural and free for everybody, the influence of religion will be positive. True religion does not lead humans to the shapeless world of unconsciousness to get lost but it helps to purify souls and bring back peaceful joy to the internal life,… Therefore, any action offending others’ beliefs is inhuman, even murder-like… With such philosophical argumentation on religion, Nguyen Khai’s novels have contributed to the “widening of the measurement range of humanism”, thereby bringing back a broader look on life.