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  title info:
    title: Tommaso Campanella
    sub title: The Book and the Body of Nature
  name:
    name part: Ernst, Germana.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 281 p. online resource.
  abstract: A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with a radical reform of science and society. He produced a complex and articulate synthesis of all fields of knowledge – including magic and astrology. During his early formative years as a Dominican friar, he manifested a restless impatience towards Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. As a reaction, he enthusiastically embraced Bernardino Telesio’s view that knowledge could only be acquired through the observation of things themselves, investigated through the senses and based on a correct understanding of the link between words and objects. Campanella’s new natural philosophy rested on the principle that the books written by men needed to be compared with God’s infinite book of nature, allowing them to correct the mistakes scattered throughout the human ‘copies’ which were always imperfect, partial and liable to revisions. It is in the light of these principles that he defended Galileo’s right to read the book of nature while denouncing the mistake of those – be they Aristotelian philosophers or theologians – who wanted to stop him from carrying on his natural investigations. However, Campanella maintained that the book of nature, far from being written in mathematical characters, was a living organism in which each natural being was endowed with life and a degree of sensibility that was appropriate for its preservation and propagation. Nature as a whole was an organism in which each single part was directed towards the common good. This is the reason why Campanella thought that nature had to be regarded as an ideal model for any political organisation. Political structures were often ruled by injustice and violence precisely because they had departed from that nat…
  table of contents: Telesius me Delectavit -- From Naples to Padua: Encounters, Conflicts, Trials -- The Palace of Atlas -- Back to Naples and Calabria -- The Conspiracy -- Prophecy, Politics and Utopia -- In the Cave of Polyphemus -- Christian Unity -- New Heavens -- The New Encyclopedia of Knowledge -- The Disappointment of Liberty -- The Paris Years.
  note: by Germana Ernst.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Medieval philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: B720-765
  classification: 180
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 200
  identifier: 9789048131266
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3126-6
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    record creation date: 100316
    record change date: 20151204142039.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-3126-6