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.
Lectures and Sayings
The Roman Socrates on practical ethics — women deserve philosophy, food should be simple, exile is no evil, and virtue is practised, not theorised
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Lectures and Sayings |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Lectures and Sayings
Standard Stoic cosmology presupposed; focus is on practical ethics within the temporal order.
Space
Lectures and Sayings
Stoic corporeal cosmos; exile demonstrates that space is morally indifferent.
Matter
Lectures and Sayings
The body is real, morally relevant, and must be trained alongside the soul.
Observer
Lectures and Sayings
The embodied rational agent who learns virtue through practice; cosmic logos governs all.
Energy
Lectures and Sayings
Stoic pneuma-physics presupposed; no independent energy doctrine.
Information
Lectures and Sayings
The logos as cosmic rational structure; personal identity not conserved beyond death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The tension between Musonius's advocacy of women's education and his conservative views on marriage and sexual propriety; the tension between vegetarianism and mainstream Stoic acceptance of animal use.