Giles of Lessines
Topic: Biography
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Short description: Dominican philosopher
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
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
- ↑ "Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts". https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/person_305406727.
- ↑ 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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