CHRISTOPH GOTTFRIED

BARDILI (2761-1808)  , German philosopher, was born at Blaubeuren in Wurttemberg, and died 1 Even Ephrem allows that Bardaisan was in principle a mono-theist.at Stuttgart . His system has had little influence in- Germany; Reinhold (q.v.) alone expounded it against the attackr' 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); Uber die Gesetze der Ideenassociation (Tubingen, 1796); Briefe giber den Ursprung der Metaphysik (Altona, 1798); Philos . Elementarlehre (Landshut, 1802–1806); Beitrdgezur Beurteilung des gegenwdrtigen 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 and Reinholds Briefwechsel .