Giles of Lessines OP (c. 1230 – c. 1304) was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas. He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus. He was an early defender of Thomism.
He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic theory, writing on usury and market prices.
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". medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- 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". Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics
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