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.
Ethics for the New Millennium
Tenzin Gyatso's 1999 secular-ethical proposal — universal ethics independent of religious tradition
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Ethics for the New Millennium (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| 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
Ethics for the New Millennium
The 1999 turn-of-millennium moment of secular-ethical proposal.
Space
Ethics for the New Millennium
The global setting of universal-ethical proposal.
Matter
Ethics for the New Millennium
The embodied universal-human community whose ethics the book addresses.
Observer
Ethics for the New Millennium
The Buddhist-trained universal-ethical proposer as proper subject.
Energy
Ethics for the New Millennium
The compassion-energies the book commends.
Information
Ethics for the New Millennium
The universal-ethical content of the proposal.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The "secular ethics" proposal has been variously assessed — defenders see proper universal-ethical foundation, religious-traditional critics worry about the displacement of religious-specific ethical content, hard-secular critics suspect residual Buddhism.