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 10/2013:1-6 
Aither 10/2013:33-66 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2013.008
The paper attampts to select and interpret the passages in Plato's work that deal with the past and the possibility of its recognition. First I consider Plato's description of past epoches and then I try to put the dialogical setting of some dialogues into the historical context. After considering some possible interpretations of why there are discrepancies between the dialogues and the historical reports, I list the passages in which the influence of historiography on Plato's work could be found.
Aither 10/2013:67-91 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2013.009
The paper analyzes two forms of pursuit of the good life, which are inscribed in Aristotle's distinction between the "human" and the "divine" life. This topic is pursued with regard to the close links between ethics and politics, on which Aristotle's analyzes are based, and focuses on the specific relationship between politics and philosophy, which is in this context outlined in the X. book of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The distinction between the political and the philosophical life is interpreted not as determination of two distinct contents of life, we have to choose between, but as a determination of two approaches or perspectives from which...
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.
Aither 10/2013:93-110 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2013.010
