Giles Of Lessines

Short description: Dominican philosopher

Giles of Lessines OP (died c. 1304) was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas.^[1] He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus.^[2] He was an early defender of Thomism.^[3]

He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic theory, writing on usury^[4] and market prices.^[5]

Works

Among 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

↑ 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". http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number2/ssr05_02_r02.html.
↑ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics

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[1] History of Medieval Philosophy 313

[2] Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

[3] Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

[4] "Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time". http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number2/ssr05_02_r02.html.

[5] Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics