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.
Works of Love
"You shall love your neighbour" — Kierkegaard's sustained meditation on Christian love as commanded, neighbourly, and concretely actualised
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Works of Love (Late (after the pseudonymous works; the major direct theological work)) |
|---|---|
| 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
Works of Love
Eternity's present in time — love, properly understood, has the structure of the eternal breaking into temporal Christian life.
Space
Works of Love
The concrete embodied space of the neighbour relation; love is realised in actual proximity and encounter.
Matter
Works of Love
Embodied human life as the site of Christian love; the body of the neighbour as the concrete object of love.
Observer
Works of Love
The Christian believer, called to love each particular neighbour; plural, embodied, both active in love and passive in receiving the love-command.
Energy
Works of Love
The energy of Christian love — empowered by grace, irreducible to natural affection or preference.
Information
Works of Love
Love's works are preserved in eternity; the concrete history of Christian love is taken up into the eternal life of God.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Theodor Adorno famously criticised Works of Love for its abstraction from political-social realities — love-of-neighbour becomes ideological cover for avoiding structural change. K. E. Løgstrup's "The Ethical Demand" (1956) develops a Danish phenomenology of trust that is partly an alternative to Kierkegaard. Recent Kierkegaard scholarship (Ferreira, Pattison, Walsh) has argued that Works of Love is more politically engaged than Adorno allowed. The book's relation to twentieth-century Christian social ethics is a continuing scholarly question.