Giles of Lessines

Giles of Lessines

Giles of Lessines (died c. 1304) was a thirteenth-century Dominican scholastic philosopher, a pupil of Thomas Aquinas [ [http://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/homp313.htm History of Medieval Philosophy 313 ] ] . He was also strongly influenced by Albertus Magnus [ [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-great/ Albert the Great (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ] ] . He was an early defender of Thomism [ [http://www.domcentral.org/trad/domwork/domwork09.htm Work 9: The Doctrinal Life and the Thomistic School

] ] .

He is also known as an early scientist, and for economic doctrine, on usury [ [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number2/ssr05_02_r02.html Usury, Scriptural Economics and Eschatological Time ] ] and market prices [ [http://www.minaret.org/austrian.htm Islam And The Medieval Progenitors Of Austrian Economics ] ] .

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