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.
Vom Edlen Menschen
The noble man is the soul that has known itself in its divine ground — and that ground is one with God's own ground
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Vom Edlen Menschen (Mature (probably from the Strasbourg years before the trial)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Non-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Undefined |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| 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
Vom Edlen Menschen
The eternal moment of the soul's recognition of its divine ground; the temporal journey of the noble man toward this recognition.
Space
Vom Edlen Menschen
The non-spatial "ground" of the soul; the "far country" of the parable read as the soul's native divine home.
Matter
Vom Edlen Menschen
The bodily life of the noble man — Eckhart does not deny the embodied condition but locates the soul's nobility deeper than the body.
Observer
Vom Edlen Menschen
The noble man — Observer Number is Singular at the ground where the soul and God are one.
Energy
Vom Edlen Menschen
The dynamic of return — the soul moving toward and finally arriving at its divine ground.
Information
Vom Edlen Menschen
The scriptural parable read with full allegorical depth; the discrete spiritual lessons of the soul's journey home.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The syllogism — "the just man is born of God; what is born of God is God; therefore the just man is, by his justice, God" — was among the propositions cited at Eckhart's trial and condemned (with qualifications) in the 1329 bull. Eckhart and his Dominican defenders insisted on the orthodox reading (the just man is one with God by participation, not identity), but the rhetorical sharpness of the formulation made the controversy unavoidable.