Giles of Lessines

Giles of Lessines OP (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 theory, writing on usury[4] and market prices.[5]

Works

Among the works authored by Giles are:

Notes

  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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