Campanella biography

Tommaso Campanella was one of the great writers and thinkers in Italy in the early 1600s. He spent much of his life in jail because of his unusual religious views and his plots against the government.

However, while imprisoned, he produced some of his most noted works, including his vision of the ideal society.

Dangerous Ideas. Giovanni Dominico Campanella adopted the name Tommaso when he entered the Dominican* religious order in 1583.

A gifted scholar, he soon became dissatisfied with the works of Aristotle, the philosopher whose writings dominated the schools.

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He decided to create his own system of philosophy based on Christian sources. Campanella presented his ideas in Philosophy Proven by the Senses (1591).

In Campanella's system, everything that exists contains three parts that he calls primalities: power, knowledge, and love.

He linked these three primalities to God the Father, God the Son, and God the H