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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  3. ^ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  4. ^ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

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  6. ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics

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