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.
Book of Amos
Let justice roll down like waters — the first literary prophet condemns a prosperous nation for grinding the poor
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Book of Amos |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Implicit |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Implicit |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Providential |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Divine-Command |
| 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 | Implicit |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Book of Amos
Time moves linearly toward the Day of the LORD — a day of reckoning, not triumph. History is the arena of divine justice: "Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?" (3:6). The past (Exodus, wilderness) is the measure of the present.
Space
Book of Amos
Geography is morally charged: Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, and all the surrounding nations fall under the same God's judgement. "Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" (9:7) — God's sovereignty is universal in space.
Matter
Book of Amos
Grain, wine, oil, ivory, fine houses — the material goods of Jeroboam's prosperous Israel are named with prophetic precision because their distribution is the moral test. "You have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them" (5:11).
Observer
Book of Amos
God is the total observer: "The eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom" (9:8). The prophet mediates: "Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets" (3:7). The human observer is embodied, active, and morally accountable.
Energy
Book of Amos
Natural forces — earthquake, fire, drought, plague — are instruments of divine judgement. "I gave you cleanness of teeth … and lack of bread" (4:6). Energy is real, finite, and irreversible in its effects.
Information
Book of Amos
The prophetic word is the decisive informational event. Once spoken, it creates an irrevocable reality: "The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?" (3:8).
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The book's deepest tension is between the universal moral law that condemns all nations equally and the particular covenant that singles out Israel for special punishment. Amos wants both — God judges everyone, but "you only have I known" (3:2) means Israel is held to a higher standard. This double register of universalism and particularism runs through all subsequent prophetic ethics.