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.
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Iris Murdoch's 1953 short study of Sartre — her first published book and the founding statement of her philosophical-literary engagement with French existentialism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
The early-1950s moment of British engagement with French existentialism; Murdoch's own intellectual formation.
Space
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Paris (where Murdoch had been) and Cambridge (where she now wrote); the British-French philosophical exchange.
Matter
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
The textual matter of Sartre's philosophical works; Sartre's own embodied presence in 1940s-50s Paris.
Observer
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Murdoch as British-analytical-philosophical observer; Sartre as the French-continental subject.
Energy
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
The intellectual energies of mid-twentieth-century European philosophical exchange.
Information
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
The philosophical-critical analysis; the developmental seed of Murdoch's own constructive position.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The book is sometimes treated as a juvenile work eclipsed by Murdoch's mature philosophy; recent rehabilitation (Conradi, Antonaccio, Broackes) has restored its standing as a serious philosophical engagement.