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.
Opus Tripartitum
A unified Latin scholastic system organising 1,000 propositions on being, the soul, and God — never completed; only fragments and the biblical commentaries survive
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| 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.
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.