Organic cosmology directly motivated armed political revolution against Spanish rule.

Evidence

Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) followed the Renaissance naturalist philosopher, Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588), in his belief that God was immanent within nature and that all matter was alive. Change was explained by the dialectical warring of the opposites, heat and cold, as source of the dynamic motion of matter (see Chapter 4). In his attempt to establish an ideal society based on holistic presuppostions about nature, Campanella, in 1599, led a revolutionary movement to overthrow Spanish rule in Naples and the entire province of Calabria, in southern Italy. Portents in the heavens predicting the advent of the millennium indicated to him the necessity of immediate political overthrow and the fusion of all religious sects as the world returned to the golden age of simple, natural, primitive faith. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 367

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the published piece ‘On Sacrifice’ and the whole polyad thread on communal/organic egalitarian theories (ch24 claim preexisting in this book) by showing organic cosmology was not just a metaphor but a millenarian revolutionary program — feeds the eco-justice course’s land/place and settler-colonial critique strands.
• XREF: connects to: Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 347; The organic theory of society took three politically distinct forms — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 338

Broader Connections

• Russian official nationalism differed from Spanish colonialism in being self-consciously Machiavellian #qualifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 347
• The organic theory of society took three politically distinct forms #complicates (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 338