Giles of Lessines OP (c. 1230 – c. 1304)[1] was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas.[2] He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus.[3] He was an early defender of Thomism.[4]
He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic theory, writing on usury[5] and market prices.[6]
Works
editAmong the works authored by Giles are:
- Commentarium in libros I et II Sententiarum
- De concordia temporum
- De essentia, motu et significatione cometarum
- De geometria
- Epistula Alberto Magno missa
- Summa de temporibus
- De unitate formae
- De usuris
- Quaestiones theologicae
Notes
edit- ^ "Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts". medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ History of Medieval Philosophy 313
- ^ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- ^ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School
- ^ "Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time". Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics
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