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.
Liber Vitae Meritorum
Thirty-five vices and thirty-five virtues — Hildegard's middle visionary work, the systematic spiritual-moral treatise
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Liber Vitae Meritorum (Mid (the middle volume of the visionary trilogy)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Singular |
| 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
Liber Vitae Meritorum
The temporal life of spiritual progress through the virtues and away from the vices.
Space
Liber Vitae Meritorum
The visionary space of the cosmic moral order; the interior space of the soul.
Matter
Liber Vitae Meritorum
Embodied human life as the substrate of virtue and vice.
Observer
Liber Vitae Meritorum
Hildegard as the visionary receiver — embodied, singular, divinely authorised. Personal-providential God as framework.
Energy
Liber Vitae Meritorum
The energies of virtue (participating in divine goodness) and vice (privation thereof).
Information
Liber Vitae Meritorum
The systematic spiritual-psychological tradition preserved through visionary articulation.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Liber Vitae Meritorum has been less translated and read than Scivias, partly because of its more systematically detailed structure. The relation between Hildegard's visionary form and the systematic spiritual-psychological content has been a continuing scholarly question. Modern Hildegard scholarship has substantially rehabilitated the work.