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Aither 34/2025 (International issue no. 13):4-23 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2026.002 
This paper offers a new interpretation of the unity of the human soul’s parts in De Anima II.3, drawing on the mathematical notion of dimension. Dimensionality, understood as an intrinsic property that parameterises a system’s complexity by the number of its independent yet ordered parameters, provides a suitable framework for explaining the unity of the tripartite human soul. The nutritive, the perceptual, and the intellectual parts emerge as three definitionally distinct yet operationally ordered dimensions of a human being. Though anachronistic, this dimensional account is philosophically fruitful: it effectively unifies three...
Aither 34/2025 (International issue no. 13):24-35 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2025.005
This paper analyses the role of happiness in moral motivation within the eudaimonistic tradition. It addresses the Aristotelian-Thomistic tension between choosing virtuous action for its own sake and for the sake of eudaimonia. Through a critical examination of Josef Seifert’s two-motive theory, Jeff D’Souza’s altruistic eudaimonism, and Chris Toner’s excellence-prior eudaimonism, I argue that Seifert’s phenomenological framework provides the most coherent account. It distinguishes between a primary, value-responsive motive directed toward morally relevant goods and a secondary, subordinate desire for true happiness....
Aither 34/2025 (International issue no. 13):36-61 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2025.006
Karl Popper has hitherto been understood as either a liberal or, at best, as a sui generis specimen of socialism. I argue that his political thought bears a remarkable resemblance to what Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner have dubbed the Italo-Atlantic branch of republicanism. Viewing Popper through a republican lens would reveal that there is a robust and coherent theory behind his attack on the “enemies of the open society”. The paper focuses successively on the concept of freedom understood as nondomination, on the role of the state and the rule of law, and on democracy. That Popper might be classified “as a republican,...
