BARDILLI, CHRISTOPH GOTTFRIED. – German philosopher, b. at Blaubeuren in Württemberg on 18 May 1761, d. at Mergelstetten on 5 June 1808.
He wrote on philosophy and the history of philosophy, but is especially known for his polemic against Kant in the work *Grundriß der ersten Logik, gereinigt von den Irrthümern der bisherigen Logiken überhaupt, der Kantschen insbesondere; keine Kritik, sondern eine medicina mentis*... (Stuttgart 1800).
B.’s doctrine, according to Reinhold, is a rational realism for which the principle of the world is objective thought, which, however, becomes subjective in us. The world is a manifestation of thought whose law is the principle of identity or non-contradiction. This theory, which clearly foreshadows the Hegelian panlogism, did not meet with the approval of Fichte and Schelling, who attacked it, while it pleased Reinhold, to whom we owe the fame of our philosopher.