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Work #943 · Late (Eckhart's most ambitious Latin project, undertaken in the years before the 1326 trial)

Opus Tripartitum

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim)
c. 1311-26 (planned during Eckhart's second Paris regency, never completed; only fragments survive) · Latin
Unfinished systematic theological-philosophical project · Late medieval Latin scholasticism / Rhineland mysticism

A unified Latin scholastic system organising 1,000 propositions on being, the soul, and God — never completed; only fragments and the biblical commentaries survive

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Attribute Opus Tripartitum (Late (Eckhart's most ambitious Latin project, undertaken in the years before the 1326 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

Opus Tripartitum

The eternal time of absolute Being and the temporal procession of creatures from it; "now" (nu) as the moment in which the soul touches eternity.

Space

Opus Tripartitum

The "ground" (grunt) of the soul as the place where God is present non-spatially; the created spatial world as the contracted expression of the absolute.

Matter

Opus Tripartitum

Created matter as the contracted expression of being; in itself nothing apart from its participation in the absolute.

Observer

Opus Tripartitum

The soul whose ground is one with the divine ground — Observer Number is Singular at the depth Eckhart aims at.

Energy

Opus Tripartitum

The dynamic of procession from and return to the absolute being.

Information

Opus Tripartitum

The 1,000 propositions Eckhart planned to organise, together with the biblical-exegetical illustrations, as the discrete content of his system.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Opus Tripartitum

Twenty-eight propositions from Eckhart's works were condemned at the 1326-29 Avignon trial; the bull In Agro Dominico (1329) was promulgated after Eckhart's 1328 death. Whether the condemned propositions were correctly attributed and correctly interpreted has been debated ever since: most modern Eckhart scholarship (Lossky, McGinn, Mojsisch) reads them as orthodox within their proper context. The Opus Tripartitum's incompleteness reflects both the trial's disruption and the inherent difficulty of the project; what survives is enough to show what Eckhart attempted but not enough to assess whether he could have completed it.