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Open AccessPublished: 22 April 2026

From Big Data to Dataism: Philosophical Reflections on Freedom, Labor, and Biological Inequality from a Historical Materialist Perspective

Nguyễn Vân Hạnh

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1–13 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.1138

Grounded in the methodology of historical materialism, the article interprets dataism as a new configuration of power and ownership emerging within the digital mode of production. While big data technologies significantly enhance economic efficiency and scientific knowledge, they also generate structural risks for future society

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Open AccessPublished: 16 October 2024

Justice, Democracy, and Freedom in the Middle Ages: The Fables by Marie de France

Albrecht Classen

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 26–38 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.367

It might be surprising, and yet it can certainly be confirmed that the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France offered in her Fables (ca. 1190) a wide range of political, social, moral, and philosophical notions about the way people within her society should and could live together in a peaceful, just, and respectful manner. She did n

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Open AccessPublished: 12 October 2024

Sartre’s ‘Freedom’ and Society: Existentialist’s Dilemma in Naturalistic View

Anirban Ghosh, Malabika Chakrabarti

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 13-25 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.203

Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different cause

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Open AccessPublished: 9 October 2026

The Age of Machines: Anders on Work, Alienation and Promethean Gap

Federico Monaro

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 163–175 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.101941

This article examines Günther Anders’s critical reflection on the human condition in technological modernity, focusing on the central concepts of the “obsolescence of man” and the Promethean Gap. The latter describes the widening disproportion between the productive power of machines and the limited cognitive, moral, and imagina

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Open AccessPublished: 23 June 2026

From Saying to Showing: Action, the Economy of Silence, and the Limits of Development Discourse

Viateur Nkurunziza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 62–76 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102513

Contemporary discourses on inclusive and just development emphasise ambitions of empowerment and capacity-building without producing genuine socio-economic transformation. This article develops the concept of the Economy of Silence to explain why the smallest and most constrained actors are often those who generate social change

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