Bøger af Jean-François Pradeau

Nouvelle édition critique et traduction française annotée de la Lettre à Marcella de Porphyre. Le philosophe néoplatonicien Porphyre (234-305) y adresse à sa femme un témoignage unique sur la manière dont une vie philosophique peut être conduite et se préserver. This book presents a new annotated and translated edition of neoplatonist 3rd-century Greek philosopher Porphyrius' Letter to Marcella. This letter, adressed to his wife, gives a unique account on the ways and principles along which a philosophical life should be led so as to perpetuate itself.

Plato and the City is a general introduction to Plato's political thought. It covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city's unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that unity the aim of philosophy.