The Unity of the Human Soul: A Dimensional Reading of DA II.3
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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<a href="https://aither.upol.cz/en/artkey/ath-202502-0001_the-unity-of-the-human-soul-a-dimensional-reading-of-da-ii-3.php" target="_blank" >https://aither.upol.cz/en/artkey/ath-202502-0001_the-unity-of-the-human-soul-a-dimensional-reading-of-da-ii-3.php</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/aither.2026.002" target="_blank" >10.5507/aither.2026.002</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Unity of the Human Soul: A Dimensional Reading of DA II.3
Original language description
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 structural features of the soul’s parts – serial order, potential containment, and teleological subordination – identified in recent scholarship (Johansen 2012, 2014; Corcilius 2015, 2023, 2025).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Aither. Časopis pro studium řecké a latinské filosofické tradice
ISSN
1803-7879
e-ISSN
1803-7860
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
34
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
4-23
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105031248495