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.
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Nishida's 1917 second major work — Japanese Buddhist phenomenology in dialogue with Fichte and Husserl
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Middle) |
|---|---|
| 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
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
1917 publication. Nishida was 47, in the middle of his Kyoto Imperial University tenure (he had joined the faculty in 1910).
Space
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Kyoto Imperial University — the institutional centre of the Kyoto School.
Matter
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Middle-period philosophical treatise (~400 pages in modern editions). Form is sustained philosophical-systematic essay.
Observer
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Middle Nishida. The observer-philosopher is in the transition period between the early experiential framework of 'Inquiry into the Good' and the later basho-framework.
Energy
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Mid-development philosophical energies. The book records Nishida's intellectual development across six years of intensive engagement with German-philosophical sources.
Information
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness
Single book of substantial philosophical-systematic argument.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Middle-Nishida — the bridge between Inquiry into the Good and the Logic of Place. Continuously read in Nishida-scholarship and in the broader Kyoto-School literature; the book records the development from active-volitional self-consciousness to the contemplative basho-framework that would define mature Kyoto-School philosophy.