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.
Commentary on Genesis
Eckhart's Latin commentary on Genesis — major scholastic-mystical creation-theology
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Commentary on Genesis (Mature) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Commentary on Genesis
The c. 1305-25 mature-Eckhart period.
Space
Commentary on Genesis
The Paris-Strasbourg-Cologne Dominican settings.
Matter
Commentary on Genesis
The Genesis text as proper-scriptural-philosophical subject.
Observer
Commentary on Genesis
Eckhart as proper Dominican-scholastic-mystical commentator.
Energy
Commentary on Genesis
The intellectual-mystical-creation-theological energies.
Information
Commentary on Genesis
The systematic commentary content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Commentary on Genesis has been variously assessed — defenders see major creation-theological achievement; some specific propositions from Eckhart's creation-theology were among those condemned in 1329 (In Agro Dominico).