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.
Not for Profit
Nussbaum's 2010 'Not for Profit' — democracy requires the humanities, not just STEM-instrumental education
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Not for Profit (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 | Infinite |
| 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 | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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 | 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
Not for Profit
2010 first edition; 2016 expanded second edition. Nussbaum was 63 at first publication, with her major systematic philosophical works (Upheavals of Thought, Frontiers of Justice, Creating Capabilities) already published.
Space
Not for Profit
Chicago (Nussbaum's University of Chicago appointment since 1995) and her international academic engagement (especially with Indian universities through the SEWA work and the Nehru Centre lectures).
Matter
Not for Profit
Short public-philosophical monograph (~190 pages first ed.; ~230 pages second ed.). Form is essay-monographic with seven chapters.
Observer
Not for Profit
Late Nussbaum. The observer is the philosopher whose own university-teaching experience and international-university engagement inform the argument.
Energy
Not for Profit
Public-philosophical-defending energies. The book is the most direct of Nussbaum's public-policy interventions, addressed to university administrators, policy-makers, and the broader educated public rather than primarily to other philosophers.
Information
Not for Profit
Single short book. The three-capacities framework (critical thinking / global perspective / cultivated imagination) is the central informational structure; case studies of universities in the US, India, and Europe illustrate the argument.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Defining contemporary defence of liberal humanistic education. Continuously cited in debates over university priorities, the value of the humanities, the role of STEM in higher education, and the relations between economic productivity and democratic citizenship.