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.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt-chaired UN drafting committee's 1948 Universal Declaration — founding document of international human-rights law
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Universal Declaration of Human Rights (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 | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Community |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The 1947-48 post-war drafting period; the December 10, 1948 adoption.
Space
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The UN as the global-institutional setting; the represented states.
Matter
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The embodied human persons whose rights the Declaration articulates.
Observer
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The UN General Assembly as the collective political subject.
Energy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The post-war political energies of international human-rights institution-building.
Information
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The thirty articles of the Declaration as institutional-legal content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The UDHR has been variously assessed — defenders see foundational achievement, critics (cultural-relativists, religious-conservatives, sovereigntists) have contested its universal claims; its legal status varies widely across signatory states.