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Open AccessPublished: 25 March 2025

Philosophical Exploration into the Exceptionalities of Giftedness and Disability: Developing Frameworks for Understanding

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 38–55 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.392

This research explores the concept of asynchrony in human development, specifically the imbalance between mental and physical aging in relation to time. It posits that while chronological age progresses uniformly, intellectual development can accelerate, leading to giftedness, or decelerate, resulting in intellectual delays or d

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Open AccessPublished: 29 May 2026

Law as Psychic Ontology: Prohibition, Fantasy, and the Affective Life of Authority

Vered Ben David

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 30–42 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.1259

This paper argues that law operates not only as an institutional or political order, but also as a psychic formation embedded within affect, desire, and recognition. The endurance of legal authority cannot be explained solely through coercion, consent, or procedural legitimacy. It also depends on how legality becomes internalize

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Open AccessPublished: 10 February 2026

Philosophy's Independence in Modernity: The Temporality of Myth and "Equality of Intelligences" as Conditions for Cultivating the Philosophical Environment

Nikita Konstantinovich Nekliudov, Siyana Vitalievna Shchepanovskaya

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 170–187 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.959

Contemporary mass interest in self-improvement and mindfulness requires philosophy to solve the problems of a modern soul no worse than other initiatives in the field of mind ecology. However, professional philosophers lose the philosophy and reduce it, for example, to teaching critical thinking. It often turns into a market pro

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Open AccessPublished: 22 August 2025

Things Fall Apart in the Well of Lost Plots... Stories... Clues... Signs… Symbols... Meanings: A Philosophical Formalist Hermeneutic on Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49”

Alvin Servaña

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 141–149 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.467

Using Philosophical Formalism, I am executing a close textual examination of Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” as a “postmodern” novel. By looking into the implications of genre and/into the supposed self-aware critico-novelistic vision of Pynchon, I cascaded this critique as follows: Part 1: the semiotic/semiological text

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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: 10 October 2024

The Quest for Happiness: Medieval Perspectives for Our Future: Philosophical and Literary-Historical Investigations

Albrecht Classen

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1-12 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.190

Human life makes sense only if the individual can achieve a certain degree of happiness. In order to address this topic in an insightful and effective way, this paper turns to a selection of medieval literary narratives where the focus specifically rests on happiness that an individual might achieve when the circumstances and th

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