Giles of Lessines

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Giles of Lessines (died c. 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 doctrine, on usury[4] and market prices[5].

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  1. ^ History of Medieval Philosophy 313
  2. ^ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  3. ^ Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

  4. ^ Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time
  5. ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics
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