Egidijus Romietis : Valdymo Ir Asmenybės Ugdymo Koncepcija
Giles of Rome: the Concept of Lordship and Personality Education

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes two concepts of Giles of Rome: concept of lordship and that of personality education. Giles was interested in theological and philosophical aspects of lordship. He had written two political treatises: De regimine principum, composed for Philip the Fair of France, and De ecclesiastica potestate, dedicated to Pope Boniface VIII. De regimine principum is a typical example of Aristotelian-Thomistic scholasticism. It is written in a strict didactic form and depicts the behavior of a good lord caring of his own morality as well as of the well being of his family and feudality. The treatise is called „mirror of princes“ and is regarded as one of the most successful expressions of medieval political thought. In De ecclesiastica potestate, Giles maintains that the pope possesses an absolute supremacy both in the ecclesiastical and in the temporal sphere. The concept of personality education is based on Aristotelian hylomorphism as elaborated by Thomas Aquinas and applied to the elucidation of human nature. In the program of education, Giles preferred ethical intellectualism, underlying the importance of the accumulation of knowledge and of cultural erudition.

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