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 Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
Eckhart's c.1300 treatise — detachment (Abgeschiedenheit) as the highest virtue
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment) (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 | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| 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
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The c. 1300 mature-Eckhart Strasbourg-period moment.
Space
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The Rhenish-German Dominican setting; the broader Christian-mystical-philosophical setting.
Matter
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The embodied soul whose proper-detachment the treatise commends.
Observer
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The proper-mystical-philosophical practitioner as proper subject.
Energy
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The proper-mystical-spiritual energies of detachment.
Information
Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment)
The mystical-philosophical content of the treatise.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Vom Abgeschiedenheit has been variously assessed — defenders see major mystical-philosophical achievement, the broader Eckhart was posthumously condemned by Pope John XXII in 1329 (In Agro Dominico) for several propositions, though Vom Abgeschiedenheit was not specifically among them.