Thus Campanella believes that he has overcome agnosticism with fideism. Metaphysics Campanella's metaphysics today has only a historical value. But the same self-consciousness reveals to me that these three primalities are limited. This is God. Thus knowledge of self is knowledge of the subject, of the limits of the subject, and of a Reality that transcends the subject.
Metaphysics thus is made dependent on the theory of knowledge.
Another particular of the metaphysics of Campanella is that the universe is animated, and that all things feel and are felt. In addition to his theory of knowledge, Campanella distinguishes as innate religion and an acquired religion. The consciousness of self reveals itself as a love of our own being and as an aspiration toward an infinite being. Man not only loves what he actually is, but he acts for his own conservation and tends toward an infinite being. All positive religions are acquired, and all tend to be interpretations of innate religion, that is, of natural religion.