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.
The End for Which God Created the World
Edwards's 1765 posthumous treatise — God's glory as the proper final cause of creation
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The End for Which God Created the World (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The End for Which God Created the World
The c. 1755 composition; the 1765 posthumous publication.
Space
The End for Which God Created the World
The American-Puritan-systematic-theological setting.
Matter
The End for Which God Created the World
The created material world as proper-manifestation of divine glory.
Observer
The End for Which God Created the World
The Edwardsian believer-theologian as proper-philosophical-religious subject.
Energy
The End for Which God Created the World
The divine-creative-philosophical energies of manifesting glory.
Information
The End for Which God Created the World
The systematic theological-philosophical content of the treatise.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The treatise has been variously assessed — defenders see major mature-Edwards theological-aesthetic achievement, critics worry about specific philosophical-theological claims about divine self-glorification.