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.
Republic (fragments)
The founding Stoic political vision: a cosmopolitan community of the wise beyond cities, courts, and currencies
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Republic (fragments) (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| 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
Republic (fragments)
Cyclical Stoic cosmic time; the ideal community transcends particular historical moments.
Space
Republic (fragments)
The Stoic finite cosmos; the community of the wise is cosmopolitan (borderless).
Matter
Republic (fragments)
Stoic corporeal ontology; only bodies are real.
Observer
Republic (fragments)
The Stoic sage exercising rational assent within the fated causal order.
Energy
Republic (fragments)
Pneuma as cosmic energetic principle; Stoic conflagration and reconstitution.
Information
Republic (fragments)
The logos as conserved rational structure of the cosmos.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The radical utopianism (abolishing courts, temples, currency) was an embarrassment to later Stoics and has been read as either sincere or as a Cynic-influenced youthful provocation.