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.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Sermon on the Mount taken at its word — non-resistance to evil dissolves both state coercion and ecclesiastical hierarchy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| 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
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Time is the medium of moral decision and of historical change. The Kingdom of God is partly present now (in every act of non-violent love) and partly to come — an eschatology that pushes ethical urgency into the present. Free in the libertarian sense; history is not predetermined.
Space
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The world of Russian peasant life — concrete villages, fields, churches, prisons — is the lived geography. Substantival, three-dimensional, locally interactive.
Matter
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Created good. Tolstoy's late asceticism is not dualist (matter is not evil); it is a critique of wealth, luxury, and the social injustices that material distribution sustains.
Observer
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Tolstoyan observer is the embodied person who reads the Sermon on the Mount in the first person and tries to obey it. Plural at the social level; the authentic moral subject is the individual conscience. Knowledge is immediate (the Sermon's commands are clear); active in moral decision. Metaphysical agency is personal — Tolstoy retains a robust personal-God theology even after his break with the institutional Church. Moral authority is scripture, taken literally and applied directly.
Energy
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Not engaged. Standard background.
Information
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
God knows the heart; the inscribed moral record is real. Personal information is conserved across death — Tolstoy never abandoned belief in personal immortality, even when much of confessional theology fell away from his late position.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Tolstoy's rigorous non-resistance has been criticised since the 1890s as either heroically consistent or politically irresponsible (Berdyaev, Bulgakov, and the broader Russian religious renaissance all engage him critically). The relation between Tolstoy's late religious writings and his earlier literary masterpieces has been disputed: continuous moral concern, or a religious turn that disowned the novelist? Modern scholarship treats the relation as one of deepening rather than rupture, but the gap in tone is real.