Giles of Lessines
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Giles of Lessines OP (fl. 1230 – 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]
Contents
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
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- ↑ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics
References
- John T. Noonan, Jr., The Scholastic Analysis of Usury (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957).
- Diana Wood, "'Lesyng of Tyme': Perceptions of Idleness and Usury in Late Medieval England," in The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, Papers Read at the 1999 Summer Meeting and the 2000 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, edited by R. N. Swanson (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2002), pp. 107-116.
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