BARDILI

bardili, christoph gottfried (1761-1808), german philosopher, was born at blaubeuren in wuerttemberg, and died at stuttgart. his system has had little influence in germany; reinhold (_q.v._) alone expounded it against the attacks of fichte and schelling. yet in some respects his ideas opened the way for the later speculations of schelling and hegel. he dissented strongly from the kantian distinction between matter and form of thought, and urged that philosophy should consider only thought in itself, pure thought, the ground or possibility of being. the fundamental principle of thought is, according to him, the law of identity; logical thinking is real thinking. the matter upon which thought operated is in itself indefinite and is rendered definite through the action of thought. bardili worked out his idea in a one-sided manner. he held that thought has in itself no power of development, and ultimately reduced it to arithmetical computation. he published _grundriss der ersten logik_ (stuttgart, 1800); _ueber die gesetze der ideenassociation_ (tuebingen, 1796); _briefe ueber den ursprung der metaphysik_ (altona, 1798); _philos. elementarlehre_ (landshut, 1802-1806); _beitraege zur beurteilung des gegenwaertigen zustandes der vernunftlehre_ (landshut, 1803). see c. l. michelet, _geschichte der letzten systeme_; j. e. erdmann, _versuch einer geschichte d. neu. phil._ bd. iii. pt. i.; _b's und reinholds briefwechsel._