Miira Tuominen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miira Tuominen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miira |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuominen |
| SIGNATURE | TUOMINEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8633-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Porphyry’s Account of Justice in On Abstinence
In this essay, I argue for a new analysis of Porphyry’s argument for justice in On abstinence . I aim to show that (i) in addition to being an inner order of soul, justice is attributed to external actions and (ii) justice of actions consists in refraining from harming harmless living creatures, including animals and plants. The relevant harm, I argue, consists in taking the lives of living creatures and taking products from them by force or with…
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection i…
New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics
Introduction: Aristotelian Challenges to Contemporary Philosophy - Nature, Knowledge, and the Good I SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE 1. Aristotle's Natural Teleology Seen from Above: A 'Cosmogony' of the Means-Goal Relation, Diana Quarantotto 2. Discursivity in Aristotle's Biological Writings, Sabine Follinger 3. Naturalised versus Normative Epistemology: An Aristotelian Alternative, Miira Tuominen II JUSTICE AND NATURAL RIGHTS 4. Did Plato and Aristotle R…
The Quest for the Good Life
Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern
New perspectives on Aristotelianism and its critics
Philosophy of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
From the first century BCE onwards, philosophers started to write commentaries on those Aristotle's treatises that were meant for the internal use of his school. Plato's works had been commented on already earlier, the first reported commentary originates in the 300s BCE. Commentaries are treatises that follow an object text in a more or less linear fashion. The format was not unknown before the first century BCE but new in extensive philosophica…
Back to Posterior Analytics II 19
Receptive Reason
According to Alexander of Aphrodisias, our potential intellect is a purely receptive capacity. Alexander also claims that, in order for us to actualise our intellectual potentiality, the intellect needs to abstract what is intelligible from enmattered perceptible objects. Now a problem emerges: How is it possible for a purely receptive capacity to perform such an abstraction? It will be argued that even though Alexander’s reaction to this questio…
The Ancient Commentators of Plato and Aristotle
In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources of information for the masters, Plato and Aristotle, they commented upon. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly acknowledged that the commentators themselves - Aspasius, Alexander, Themistiu…
The ancient commentators on Plato and Aristotle
Apprehension and Argument
Mind and Modality
This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well. The contributions deal with mind’s cognitive and emotional functions, the modal notions and the philosophical approaches to religion as well as logical, semantic and epistemological issues concerning them. Of twenty-one contributions, …
Receptive Reason
According to Alexander of Aphrodisias, our potential intellect is a purely receptive capacity. Alexander also claims that, in order for us to actualise our intellectual potentiality, the intellect needs to abstract what is intelligible from enmattered perceptible objects. Now a problem emerges: How is it possible for a purely receptive capacity to perform such an abstraction? It will be argued that even though Alexander’s reaction to this questio…
Mind and Modality
This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well. The contributions deal with mind’s cognitive and emotional functions, the modal notions and the philosophical approaches to religion as well as logical, semantic and epistemological issues concerning them. Of twenty-one contributions, …
Apprehension and Argument
The Ancient Commentators of Plato and Aristotle
In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources of information for the masters, Plato and Aristotle, they commented upon. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly acknowledged that the commentators themselves - Aspasius, Alexander, Themistiu…
The ancient commentators on Plato and Aristotle
Back to Posterior Analytics II 19
Receptive Reason
According to Alexander of Aphrodisias, our potential intellect is a purely receptive capacity. Alexander also claims that, in order for us to actualise our intellectual potentiality, the intellect needs to abstract what is intelligible from enmattered perceptible objects. Now a problem emerges: How is it possible for a purely receptive capacity to perform such an abstraction? It will be argued that even though Alexander’s reaction to this questio…
Philosophy of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
From the first century BCE onwards, philosophers started to write commentaries on those Aristotle's treatises that were meant for the internal use of his school. Plato's works had been commented on already earlier, the first reported commentary originates in the 300s BCE. Commentaries are treatises that follow an object text in a more or less linear fashion. The format was not unknown before the first century BCE but new in extensive philosophica…
New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics
Introduction: Aristotelian Challenges to Contemporary Philosophy - Nature, Knowledge, and the Good I SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE 1. Aristotle's Natural Teleology Seen from Above: A 'Cosmogony' of the Means-Goal Relation, Diana Quarantotto 2. Discursivity in Aristotle's Biological Writings, Sabine Follinger 3. Naturalised versus Normative Epistemology: An Aristotelian Alternative, Miira Tuominen II JUSTICE AND NATURAL RIGHTS 4. Did Plato and Aristotle R…
The Quest for the Good Life
Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern
New perspectives on Aristotelianism and its critics
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection i…
Porphyry’s Account of Justice in On Abstinence
In this essay, I argue for a new analysis of Porphyry’s argument for justice in On abstinence . I aim to show that (i) in addition to being an inner order of soul, justice is attributed to external actions and (ii) justice of actions consists in refraining from harming harmless living creatures, including animals and plants. The relevant harm, I argue, consists in taking the lives of living creatures and taking products from them by force or with…
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