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Giles of Lessines

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Giles of Lessines OP (c. 1230c. 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

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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

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  1. ^ "Giles, of Lessines, approximately 1230–approximately 1304 - Medieval Manuscripts". medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  2. ^ History of Medieval Philosophy 313
  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". Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  6. ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics