Giles of Lessines
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]
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics
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