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.
From the Acting to the Seeing
Nishida's 1927 'From the Acting to the Seeing' — turn to the logic of place (basho)
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | From the Acting to the Seeing (Middle-to-late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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
From the Acting to the Seeing
1927 publication. Nishida was 57 and had been Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto Imperial University since 1910.
Space
From the Acting to the Seeing
Kyoto Imperial University — the institutional centre of the Kyoto School of philosophy. The intellectual space is the encounter of Japanese-Buddhist philosophical traditions with German-philosophical modernism.
Matter
From the Acting to the Seeing
Six-essay collection. Form is essayistic-philosophical: each essay develops one stage of the basho framework.
Observer
From the Acting to the Seeing
Middle-to-late Nishida. The observer-philosopher is at the height of his constructive philosophical work, between the early 'Inquiry into the Good' (1911) and the late writings on the dialectical world (1930s-1940s).
Energy
From the Acting to the Seeing
Late-developmental energies. The book inaugurates the philosophical framework — the logic of place — that would structure all subsequent Kyoto-School philosophy.
Information
From the Acting to the Seeing
Single essay collection. The 'Basho' essay is the central informational structure; the other essays apply and develop its framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mature turn to the logic of place — Nishida's most influential conceptual move. The basho framework has been continuously developed in subsequent Kyoto-School philosophy (Tanabe Hajime, Nishitani Keiji, Ueda Shizuteru), engaged comparatively with Western phenomenology (Tanabe's encounter with Heidegger; Nishitani's with Eckhart), and applied in contemporary religious-philosophical scholarship.