Christoph Gottfried Bardili (18 May 17615 June 1808) was a

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and cousin of

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. He was critical of

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and proposed his own system of philosophy known as rational realism, a view based purely upon "

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as thinking".

Life

Bardili was born on 18 May 1761 in

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in the

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. In 1786 he became a Repentant at the

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, a Protestant theological college in

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. In 1790 he became a professor of philosophy at the

Karlsschule Hohe Karlsschule (''Karl's High School'') was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 f ...

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. 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

distinction between matter and form of thought, and urged that

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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. This cites: * C. L. Michelet, ''Geschichte der letzten Systeme.'' * J. E. Erdmann, ''Versuch einer Geschichte d. neu. Phil. Bd.'' iii. pt. i. * ''Bardilis und Reinholds Briefwechsel.'' According to the Encyclopædia Britannica ''Eleventh Edition'': Bardili died in .

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. **Volume 1. ''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 esetzeder Ideenassoziation'' (1796). * ''Briefe über den Ursprung der Metaphysik überhaupt'' (1798)
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* ''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)
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardili, Christoph Gottfried 1761 births 1808 deaths People from Alb-Donau-Kreis People from the Duchy of Württemberg German philosophers German logicians German male writers