Editing Christoph Gottfried Bardili

{{Short description|German philosopher (1761–1808)}}
'''Christoph Gottfried Bardili''' (18 May 1761{{snd}}5 June 1808) was a [[Germans|German]] [[philosopher]] and cousin of [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling]]. He was critical of [[Immanuel Kant|Kantian]] [[idealism]] and proposed his own system of philosophy known as '''rational realism'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, a view based purely upon "[[thinking]] as thinking".<ref>[[Tom Rockmore]], ''Kant and Phenomenology'', University of Chicago Press, 2011, p. 85.</ref>

==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}}.

==Works==
* ''Observationes physicae, praesertim meteorologicae'' (1780).
* ''Ueber die Entstehung und Beschaffenheit des ausserordentlichen Nebels in unseren Gegenden im Sommer 1783'' (1783).
* ''Epochen der vorzüglichsten philosophischen Begriffe'' (1788). 2 volumes.
**<small>Volume 1</small>. ''Epochen der Ideen von einem Geist, von Gott und der menschlichen Seele''.
* ''Giebt es für die wichtigsten Lehren der theoretischen sowohl als der praktischen Philosophie'' (1791).
* ''Sophylus oder Sittlichkeit und Natur als Fundamente der Weltweisheit'' (1794).
* ''Allgemeine praktische Philosophie'' (1795).
* ''Ueber den Ursprung des Begriffs von der Willensfreiheit'' (1796).
* ''Ueber die [Gesetze] der Ideenassoziation'' (1796).
* ''Briefe über den Ursprung der Metaphysik überhaupt'' (1798). [http://www.uni-kiel.de/ub/digiport/bis1800/Ca9904(2).html Kiel]
* ''Grundriss der ersten Logik'' (1800).
* ''Philosophische Elementarlehre'' (1802–1806). 2 volumes.
* ''Beiträge zur Beurtheilung des gegenwärtigen Zustandes der Vernunftlehre'' (1803).
* ''Briefwechsel über das Wesen der Philosophie und das Unwesen der Speculation'' (1804). [https://books.google.com/books?id=o78IAAAAQAAJ Google]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{in lang|de}} {{Cite web |last=Hanslmeier |first=Josef |date=1953 |title=Neue Deutsche Biographie |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz2060.html#ndbcontent |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Deutsche Biographie}}

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