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.
On the Genealogy of Morality
Good/evil as slave-revolt in morality; bad conscience as turned-in cruelty; the ascetic ideal as the human will's defence against its own meaninglessness
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On the Genealogy of Morality (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Immediate |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Constructed |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
On the Genealogy of Morality
Historical time of cultural-moral change. The genealogical method tracks moral concepts through their real historical mutations. Eternal recurrence lurks in the background as the test of any value.
Space
On the Genealogy of Morality
Not directly engaged.
Matter
On the Genealogy of Morality
Naturalistic background — bodies, drives, physiological energies are the substrate of moral phenomena.
Observer
On the Genealogy of Morality
The Nietzschean observer is the embodied historical-cultural human, plural, actively interpreting. Moral authority is constructed; no metaphysical agency.
Energy
On the Genealogy of Morality
Will to power is the energetic principle — substantival in Nietzsche's mature thought, conserved across cultural transformations.
Information
On the Genealogy of Morality
No fixed values, no preserved moral truths — only genealogical traces of past contests of power. Personal information not conserved.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Nietzsche's rhetorical excess (the "blond beast" in Essay I, the language of master races) has been used to associate him with right-wing reaction in ways the philosophical content does not support. Walter Kaufmann's 1950 Nietzsche rehabilitated him in Anglophone scholarship; modern Nietzsche scholarship (Brian Leiter, Maudemarie Clark) reads the Genealogy as serious philosophy that survives the rhetorical-political distortions.