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.
Hind Swaraj
Indian home rule as the rejection of British civilisation itself — Gandhi's 1909 dialogue establishing the philosophical foundation of his subsequent satyagraha
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Hind Swaraj (Early (the founding text of Gandhi's mature political-philosophical vision)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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
Hind Swaraj
Historical-political time of colonial India as the medium of satyagraha practice; the patient unfolding of truth-force.
Space
Hind Swaraj
The village-scale community as the proper space of political-economic life, against the abstract centralised space of the modern state.
Matter
Hind Swaraj
The embodied life of manual labour, spinning, walking — the material practices of swaraj life.
Observer
Hind Swaraj
The satyagrahi — embodied, plural, both active in non-violent resistance and passive in receiving suffering. Truth (satya) as cosmic-ordering framework.
Energy
Hind Swaraj
Truth-force (satyagraha) as the political-spiritual energy; ahimsa as its enabling condition.
Information
Hind Swaraj
The Gandhian tradition's preserved practical wisdom; the satyagrahi's personal commitment preserved through embodied practice.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Tagore criticised Hind Swaraj as too rejectionist of modernity (the famous Gandhi-Tagore correspondence is a major document). Nehru regarded the book's economic vision as utopian and impractical for an independent India. Post-colonial criticism has both engaged Gandhi appreciatively (Ashis Nandy) and criticised the gendered and caste-related limitations of his framework. The relation between Hind Swaraj's village-scale vision and the actual political reality of independent India has been a continuing scholarly question.