Metafisica

Tommaso Campanella's Metafisica (1638) presents his metaphysical theory, which is structured around a trinitarian concept of power, wisdom, and love. This work revisits Roman Catholic doctrines through the lens of his metaphysical framework.1

Campanella's philosophy, influenced by Bernardino Telesio, emphasized the necessity of human experience as the foundation for philosophical inquiry. This empirical approach contrasted with Scholastic Aristotelianism. His metaphysical ideas are part of a broader philosophical tradition that includes rationalism, which posits that knowledge can be derived through reason from innate ideas, as opposed to empiricism, which grounds knowledge in sense experience.123

The concept of metaphysics itself, as explored in Cartesianism, views the physical world through primary qualities like shape and size, with all movement explained mechanistically. However, this system maintains a distinction between mental and material substance, with God as the supreme mental substance.4