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.
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
Bramhall's 1658 final salvo against Hobbes — including 'The Catching of Leviathan'
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Castigations of Mr Hobbes (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| 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 | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
1658. Bramhall was 64, two years before the 1660 Restoration that would return him to Ireland as Primate.
Space
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
London publication; Bramhall was still in exile when the book appeared (his return to Ireland came after the 1660 Restoration).
Matter
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
Polemical-philosophical treatise plus 'Catching of Leviathan' appendix (~700 pages total in original). Form is interleaved Hobbes-Bramhall text (the Castigations proper) plus standalone treatise (the Appendix).
Observer
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
Late Bramhall. The observer is the philosophical-theological bishop in his final productive period, integrating the long Hobbes-exchange with the broader anti-Hobbist political-theological project.
Energy
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
Sustained anti-Hobbist polemical energies. The thirteen-year exchange (1645-1658) is the most sustained seventeenth-century English philosophical controversy.
Information
Castigations of Mr Hobbes
Castigations plus Catching of Leviathan. The Appendix is the principal high-Church Anglican anti-Hobbist treatise of the seventeenth century.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The most wide-ranging seventeenth-century English critique of Hobbes — political, theological, metaphysical. The 'Catching of Leviathan' appendix shaped subsequent Anglican-political philosophy for two generations; Samuel Clarke's 1704-05 Boyle Lectures continue the Bramhall anti-Hobbist programme in more philosophically systematic form.