Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+ and Scopus. It is published by the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It comes out twice a year. Every second issue is international and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The journal is registered under the number ISSN 1803-7860.
Aither 10/2013:7-32 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2013.007
The article deals with Aristotle's conception of rhetoric both in the context of rhetorical philosophy of Gorgias and in connection with Isocrates as a counterpart of Plato. The main focus lies on the concept of physis that means a specific area between necessity and freedeom. All occurences of the term physis in the first book of Rhetoric are interpreted within its context. The conclusion provides an interpretation of how the concepts of physis and rhetoric are to be necessarily interconnected to form a philosophy that will not exclude rhetoric from its heart.
Published: September 30, 2013 Show citation
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