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.
Perpetual Peace
Kant's 1795 'Toward Perpetual Peace' — republican constitutions, a federation of free states, cosmopolitan right
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Perpetual Peace (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| 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
Perpetual Peace
1795 (Basel Treaty year). The essay was composed and published in months — Kant working with characteristic speed when a topic touched current events.
Space
Perpetual Peace
Königsberg — Kant's permanent residence; the political space is European-revolutionary, with the French Republic and the post-Basel Prussian-Habsburg configuration as immediate background.
Matter
Perpetual Peace
Treaty-formed political-philosophical essay. The form is itself a thesis: international right will achieve perpetual peace through the legal-treaty form, not through utopian sentiment.
Observer
Perpetual Peace
Late Kant. The observer is the philosophical-political analyst applying Critical-rational reflection to the international situation.
Energy
Perpetual Peace
Cosmopolitan-political-philosophical energies. The essay's distinctive force is its argument that the prudential-self-interest of republican citizens, when properly constituted, converges with morality's demand for peace.
Information
Perpetual Peace
Single short volume in treaty form. Six preliminary articles, three definitive articles, two supplements, an Appendix — the formal structure carries the argumentative substance.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Founding document of modern philosophy of international law and cosmopolitan politics. Read by Wilson and the framers of the League of Nations Covenant; cited by the UN Charter's preamble; foundational for the contemporary cosmopolitan-democratic-peace theory (Doyle, Russett); contested by realist political theory (Morgenthau) as utopian. The third definitive article on cosmopolitan right is the philosophical-historical seed of the post-1948 human-rights framework.