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Work #1317 · Late

Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche
1888 (completed); 1908 (published, posthumous) · German
Philosophical autobiography · German philosophy / Continental philosophy

Nietzsche's 1888 final autobiographical work

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Attribute Ecce Homo (Late)
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 Finite
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 Total
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
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

Ecce Homo

October-November 1888; January 1889 collapse; 1908 publication.

Space

Ecce Homo

Turin setting of late Nietzsche.

Matter

Ecce Homo

Nietzsche's own philosophical-personal life.

Observer

Ecce Homo

Nietzsche as autobiographical philosopher.

Energy

Ecce Homo

Late-Nietzsche philosophical-personal energies.

Information

Ecce Homo

Autobiographical-retrospective content.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Ecce Homo

Ecce Homo, written weeks before Nietzsche's mental collapse, has been variously assessed alongside questions about late-Nietzsche's mental state.