H. P. Grice on Tommaso Campanella

CAMPANELLAIANUM IMPLICATUM. Campanella, Tommaso (1586–1639) Italian Renaissance theologian and philosopher, born in Stilo, imprisoned for heresy and conspiracy. Campanella sought knowledge in scripture and nature and anticipated Descartes in articulating a method of doubt and founding knowledge and certainty on self-consciousness. He is best known for his account in The City of the Sun (1623) of a utopian egalitarian society that is without private property and is ruled by philosophers.