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.
Parisian Questions
Eckhart's scholastic Latin works — the philosophical-systematic framework underlying his vernacular German sermons
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Parisian Questions (Mid-late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| 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
Parisian Questions
Time as the medium of the soul's return to its divine ground.
Space
Parisian Questions
The interior space of the soul's ground; the metaphysical space of the divine ground.
Matter
Parisian Questions
Embodied human life as the substrate of spiritual cultivation.
Observer
Parisian Questions
The soul finding its ground in the divine ground — embodied, plural, both active and passive.
Energy
Parisian Questions
The energies of detachment, of return to the divine ground.
Information
Parisian Questions
The scholastic-philosophical analysis of mystical-spiritual realities.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Eckhart was posthumously condemned by Pope John XXII in 1329 — twenty-eight propositions from his works were declared heretical or suspect. The condemnation has been controversial since; modern Catholic engagement has been substantially rehabilitative (especially through the work of Bernard McGinn). The relation between Eckhart's Latin scholastic works and his vernacular German sermons is the central interpretive question of Eckhart scholarship.