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Giles of Rome

Overview

Giles of Rome (Latin: Aegidius Romanus; Italian: Egidio Colonna; c. 1243 – 22 December 1316) was an Italian medieval philosopher and Scholastic theologian and a friar of the Order of St Augustine, who was also appointed to the positions of prior general of his order and as Archbishop of Bourges. He is famed as being a logician, who produced a commentary on the Organon by Aristotle, and as the author of two important works: De ecclesiastica potestate, a major text of early-14th-century papalism, and De regimine principum, a guide book for Christian temporal leadership. Giles was styled Doctor Fundatissimus ("Best-Grounded Teacher") by Pope Benedict XIV.

Writers in 14th- and 15th-century-England such as John Trevisa and Thomas Hoccleve translated or adapted him into English.

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1. As far as one can judge, it is for the same reason that philosophers have aimed at a threefold division of science, or rather, were enabled to see that there was a threefold division (for they did not invent, but only discovered it), of which one part is called physical, another logical, the third ethical. The Latin equivalents of these names are now naturalized in the writings of many authors, so that these…

   of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I

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2. But the person of the Son is not another thing from the Father's essence. Therefore the Son is not from the Father's essence. Obj. 4: Further, every creature is from nothing. But in Scripture the Son is called a creature; for it is said (Ecclus. 24:5), in the person of the Wisdom begotten,"I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the first-born before all creatures": and further on (Ecclus. 24:14) it is said as…

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3. There is too the faculty of Judiciousness, and also its absence, in virtue of which we call men Judicious or the contrary. Now Judiciousness is neither entirely identical with Knowledge or Opinion (for then all would have been Judicious), nor is it any one specific science, as medical science whose object matter is things wholesome; or…

   Aristotle, The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

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Philosophers who discussed Giles of Rome

• Henry of Ghent
• Paul of Venice
• Marilyn McCord Adams

Related ideas

• Condemnations of 1210–1277
• Adam and Eve
• Columbia University Press
• Augustine of Hippo
• Thomas Aquinas
• Oxford
• Rome
• Medieval philosophy
• Aristotle
• Aristotelianism
• Friar
• Old French
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Scholasticism
• Logic
• Organon
• Peter Lombard
• University of Paris
• William de la Mare

Place in the tradition

Part of Thomism.

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