Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
The measure of loving God is to love without measure — the soul's ascent through four degrees of love
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Both eternal and temporal. The fourth degree of love is eschatological — fully realised only at the resurrection.
Space
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Finite, substantival, three-dimensional. Not a topic of philosophical analysis; the focus is interior.
Matter
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Substantival, conserved. The body is real and its resurrection is essential to the completion of love.
Observer
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Embodied, active, ascending through love. Knowledge of God is immediate in mystical experience.
Energy
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Finite, substantival, conserved. The cosmos is sustained by divine love.
Information
On Loving God (De Diligendo Deo)
Conserved at both scales. The soul is immortal; the fourth degree requires the resurrection of the body.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The treatise's claim that the highest love is "without measure" sits in tension with its own systematic structure of four precisely defined degrees. The fourth degree, attainable only at the resurrection, makes full mystical union an eschatological hope rather than a present possession — a qualification that distinguishes Bernard from more radical mystics.