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.
Love and Responsibility
The personalist norm and the ethics of sexual love — Wojtyła's 1960 treatise developing the philosophical foundation of his later theology of the body
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Love and Responsibility (Early (his major pre-papal work; drawn from pastoral and academic teaching)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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
Love and Responsibility
The temporal unfolding of romantic love — attraction, friendship, betrothal love, marriage — as the human-sexual structure.
Space
Love and Responsibility
The interpersonal-relational space of romantic and marital love.
Matter
Love and Responsibility
The embodied sexual person — the body as integral to personal love, not merely instrumental.
Observer
Love and Responsibility
The person as the central observer — irreducibly personal, embodied, capable of genuine love. Personal-providential God as framework.
Energy
Love and Responsibility
The energies of sexual love — desire, attraction, friendship, the integration of these in marital communion.
Information
Love and Responsibility
The personal self-knowledge of romantic and marital love; the Catholic tradition's preserved wisdom on sexual ethics.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Love and Responsibility's practical ethical conclusions on contraception (Wojtyła supported the natural-law position later codified in Humanae Vitae, 1968) have been continuously controversial. The relation between Love and Responsibility's philosophical framework and the later Theology of the Body (1979-84) is a major scholarly question — how does the philosophical anthropology develop into the theological-biblical anthropology? Recent feminist Catholic engagement has both appreciated and challenged elements of Wojtyła's gender anthropology.