New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics

Miira Tuominen, PhD (2002) is University Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, currently working as Academy Research Fellow. She has published monographs, edited works, and articles on a vast range of subjects in ancient philosophy, especially ancient philosophy of science and philosophical psychology. Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and the leader of the research community Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality at the University of Helsinki. Heinämaa is well-known for her work on embodiment, intersubjectivity, and generativity. She has published widely on phenomenology and the history of philosophy. Virpi Mäkinen D.Theol. (1999) is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, currently acting as Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki. Mäkinen has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on medieval and early modern politics and history of ideas.

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 Föllinger
3. Naturalised versus Normative Epistemology: An Aristotelian Alternative, Miira Tuominen

II JUSTICE AND NATURAL RIGHTS
4. Did Plato and Aristotle Recognize Human Rights?, Fred Miller
5. The Debate about Natural Rights in the Middle Ages: The Issue of Franciscan Poverty, Roberto Lambertini
6. The Impact of Ancient Legal and Philosophical Ideas on the Late Medieval Rights Discourse, Virpi Mäkinen

III MORALITY AND THE GOOD LIFE
7. The Fortunes of Virtue Ethics, Hallvard Fossheim
8. Husserl’s Phenomenological Axiology and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, John Drummond
9. Husserl’s Ethics of Renewal: A Personalistic Approach, Sara Heinämaa

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