Spanish oppression and unrest fostered radical naturalist philosophy in Naples

Evidence

The philosophy of the naturalists arose during troubled changing times in the province of Calabria in Southern Italy. Telesio, Campanella, and Bruno were all products of Naples and its surrounding towns during the era of Spanish control. A period of economic insecurity, popular political movements, and insurrections against Spanish oppression created an atmosphere conducive to the development and acceptance of the radical theories of nature espoused by the naturalists. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 495

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on earlier claim that social context selects available worldviews; connects to polyad threads on how colonial oppression shapes thought.