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 Wisdom
Eckhart's Latin commentary on Wisdom — divine Wisdom (Sapientia) as proper-philosophical-religious topic
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Commentary on Wisdom (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 | Total |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Commentary on Wisdom
The c. 1305-25 mature-Eckhart period.
Space
Commentary on Wisdom
The Paris-Strasbourg-Cologne Dominican settings.
Matter
Commentary on Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom as proper-scriptural-philosophical subject.
Observer
Commentary on Wisdom
Eckhart as proper Dominican-scholastic-mystical commentator.
Energy
Commentary on Wisdom
The intellectual-mystical-philosophical energies of work on divine attributes.
Information
Commentary on Wisdom
The systematic commentary content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Commentary on Wisdom has been variously assessed — defenders see major mystical-sophiological achievement; the broader Eckhart-corpus was subject to the 1329 papal condemnation.