Editing Christoph Gottfried Bardili (section)

==Life==
Bardili was born on 18 May 1761 in [[Blaubeuren]] in the [[Duchy of Württemberg]]. In 1786 he became a  Repentant at the [[Tübinger Stift|Stift]], a Protestant theological college in [[Tübingen]]. In 1790 he became a professor of philosophy at the [[Karlsschule Stuttgart|Karlsschule]] in [[Stuttgart]]. After the closing of the Karlschule in 1794, he became a professor of philosophy at the Stuttgart ''Gymnasium Illustre'' where he taught until his death on 5 June 1808.

He dissented strongly from the [[Immanuel Kant|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.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Bardili, Christoph Gottfried|volume=3|page=396}} This cites:
* [[Karl Ludwig Michelet|C. L. Michelet]], ''Geschichte der letzten Systeme.''
* [[Johann Eduard Erdmann|J. E. Erdmann]], ''Versuch einer Geschichte d. neu. Phil. Bd.'' iii. pt. i.
* ''Bardilis und Reinholds Briefwechsel.''</ref>

According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]]:
{{quote|His system has had little influence in [[Germany]]; [[Karl Leonhard Reinhold]] (1757–1823) alone expounded it against the attack of [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Fichte]] and [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling|Schelling]]. Yet in some respects his ideas opened the way for the later speculations of Schelling and Hegel.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}}}

Bardili died in {{Interlanguage link multi|Mergelstetten|de}}.