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.
Discourses (Orations)
Eighty orations from the golden-mouthed wandering sage — kingship, cosmology, the simple life, and philosophy as civic duty
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Discourses (Orations) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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 | Non-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
Discourses (Orations)
Stoic cyclical cosmology (Borystheniticus): conflagration and renewal; within each epoch, time is linear.
Space
Discourses (Orations)
Finite Stoic cosmos; the orator's wandering exile models the philosopher's freedom from spatial attachment.
Matter
Discourses (Orations)
Stoic corporealism: all real things are bodies, permeated by pneuma.
Observer
Discourses (Orations)
The philosopher as active public inquirer; the Olympian Discourse asks how we know the gods.
Energy
Discourses (Orations)
Stoic pneuma-physics presupposed; the cosmic fire transforms and conserves.
Information
Discourses (Orations)
The logos structures the cosmos rationally; personal identity dissolves at death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Stoic determinism vs. Cynic emphasis on individual moral choice; Platonic mythmaking coexists with Stoic materialism without systematic reconciliation; rhetoric over philosophical rigour.