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.
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Kant's 1793 'Religion within Mere Reason' — radical evil and moral religion within Critical bounds
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (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
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
1793 (first edition); 1794 (second edition with additional preface and footnotes). The book was composed in the years after the third Critique (1790) and immediately preceded the 1794 Prussian censorship order.
Space
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Königsberg — Kant's permanent residence and the immediate Prussian-Lutheran context in which the book's interpretive engagement with Christianity is situated.
Matter
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Four-book philosophical-religious treatise. The form is more architectural than dialectical: each book takes one of the four traditional Christian dogmatic loci (original sin, atonement, ecclesiology, sacrament) and reconstructs it within Critical-rational bounds.
Observer
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Late Kant. The observer-philosopher is positioned within the Lutheran-Pietist Christianity of his upbringing while pursuing the Critical question of what survives that upbringing under rigorous philosophical scrutiny.
Energy
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Critical-philosophical-religious energies. The book's risk lay precisely in proposing that core Christian doctrines could be rationally reconstructed (the orthodox could agree with the reconstruction; or, alternatively, see it as eliminating what mattered).
Information
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Single late-Critical volume in four books. Each book contains numbered sections and 'General Remarks' that extend the philosophical-theological reconstruction.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Kant's mature statement on religion within Critical bounds — provoked Prussian censorship and the post-1794 ban on his religious writing. The book has been read variously: Hegel saw it as the principal target of his religious-philosophical project; Schleiermacher as inadequate to the religious affections; Barth as the high-water mark of theological-philosophical liberalism Karl Barth's neo-orthodoxy was sworn against.