Giles of Lessines

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

1. ↑ "Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts". https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/person_305406727.
2. ↑ "History of Medieval Philosophy 313". http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp313.htm.
3. ↑ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
4. ↑ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

5. ↑ "Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time". http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number2/ssr05_02_r02.html.
6. ↑ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics

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