It would not be difficult to re-state, in terms of our hypothesis, Plato's doctrine of an enduring archetypal world of ideas reflected in a world of transitory images and appearances.
The trend of his argument is clear; as its shadow is to a solid object, so is the object itself to its archetypal idea.
Truly is Homer the primordial Hellenic seer, he who sees and sets forth the archetypal forms of the future of his race.
According to this ideal image, or archetypal world, our universe was subsequently fashioned as a true type and exemplar of the Divine Pattern; for out of unity in His abstract existence, viz.
The archetypal world was made by the egression of one out of one, and by the regression of that one, so emitted into itself by emanation.
His life seemed destined to reproduce that whole series of archetypal experiences, whose records make the Hebrew Scriptures the inspired mirror of human life.
We get it from a divine original, and the Archetypal Joker must have His fun.
It was above all for those who were not yet sure of themselves that this archetypal personality provided so splendid a stimulus.
Throughout the years, Rolland's sole endeavor has been to discover this ultimate type of artist, this primitive element of creation, much as Goethe was in search of the archetypal plant.
Things are in God in archetypal form, and are cognized through these their archetypes in God.
They are not copied from things, but are archetypal for reality and need no confirmation from experience.
First God projects from himself the ideal or archetypal world (mundus archetypus), i.
But these latter speak in detail of Adam, as the primordial, archetypal man.
Within man is born a being who surpasses him, a primordial, archetypal man, and this is another secret of the Mysteries brought to expression in the Platonic philosophy.
Plato's assertion of Archetypal Ideas was a protest against this doctrine, but was rather a guess, suggested by the nature of mathematical demonstration, than a doctrine derived from a contemplation of the external world.
The Archetypal Idea was manifested in the flesh under divers modifications upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species which actually exemplify it.
The Ideas according to which man builds up his knowledge, are emanations of the archetypal Ideas according to which the work of creation was planned and executed.
For the Divine Mind which planned the Archetypal also foreknew all its modifications.
To the mind of Plato, there was in every thing, even the smallest and most insignificant of sensible objects, a reality just in so far as it participates in some archetypal form or idea.
He beholds only the images and shadows of the ectypal world, which are but dim and distant adumbrations of the real and archetypal world.
In other words, there is homology of structure and analogy of function, conformity to archetypal forms and Teleology of organs, in wonderful combination.
There are "ideas" in the human mind which are copies of those "archetypal ideas" which dwell in the Creative Mind, and after which the universe was built.
In this ineffable eternity Plato places the Supreme Being, and the archetypal ideas of which the sensible world of time partakes.
It is also pertinent to inquire, what is the difference between the "formal cause" of Aristotle and the archetypal ideas of Plato?
There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.
The Universe lies in every human heart, and he plunged into that archetypal world that stands so close behind all sensible appearances.
The archetypal world, soul of the Earth, swam close about him, enormous and utterly simple.
V "Mythology contains the history of the archetypal world.
Golden clear it rose; and just below, like the petals of some vast, archetypal flower that gave it birth, the low blue hills of coast and island opened magically into blossom.
Archetypal resemblances of ova have been found, and such things as moths; but these are distinct and perfect in their kind.
That fossils are mere models and archetypes, is his hypothesis, not theirs; and so it is he himself who is answerable, not they, for what he deems the impiety of the archetypal dung.
The archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
Then must not the Autanthropos, the archetypal and ideal man, who is more perfect than any individual specimen, be perfectly righteous also?
Amphibia do not demonstrably evolve from an archetypal Proamphibian, nor do mammals derive from a single generalised Promammalian type.
There is an almost complete absence of the archetypal ancestral forms which are postulated by evolutionary morphology.
Unity of plan could no longer be explained idealistically as the manifestation of Divine archetypal ideas; it had a real historical basis, and was due to inheritance from a common ancestor.
The problem of the archetypal plant was more absorbing than the finest groups of trees.
We cannot, therefore, admit, without absurdity, that the archetypal ideas constitute a distinct principle of things.
The same forms and relations, the same forces and laws, the same analogous functions, and the same archetypal ideas, remain amid all individual changes.
But it seems to me that in the land of Esoteric History, where Manu provided in advance against the main destructiveness of war, the archetypal language of the whole sub-race has been preserved.
We have lost memory of what I may call the archetypal languages of Europe: the common ancestor of the Celtic group, for instance; or that Italian from which Latin and the lost Oscan and Savellian and the rest sprang.
The term he coined for it is Urpflanze, literally rendered archetypal plant, or ur-plant, as we propose quite simply to call it.
Kant here brings forward two reasons why it is permissible to conceive of the existence of an extra-human, archetypal reason.
Adams this space has been appositely called archetypal space, or ur-space.
In this condition the object of sight is not the corporeal world which reflects the light, but light itself, engaged in the weaving of the archetypal images.
To this end he studied the changing phenomena of the sky for many years, until he was able so to read its play of features that it disclosed to him the archetypal forms of cloud-formation underlying all change.
There is then no archetypal world to which the Creator looked in fabricating this of ours, but nature produces all things from within itself, without thought or hesitation.
But the story of plot, which stresses the bare incident, is archetypal of all fiction in that interest centers in the story rather than in the persons or their environment.
Geometry and logic, it has been supposed, must copy archetypal thoughts in the Creator.
In no case, however, need truth consist in a relation between our experiences and something archetypal or trans-experiential.
It was natural, therefore, that while they thought of the universe as an expression of God, they should think of it as the expression of that side of His being which can only be described as the ideal orarchetypal manhood.
Nor do very much more definite notions seem to have prevailed with regard to the archetypal molluscous form, and the mode in which (if such an archetype exist) it becomes modified in the different secondary types.
Lankester's schematic mollusc differs from Huxley's archetypal mollusc only as a finished modern piece of mechanism, the final result of years of experiment, differs from the original invention.
This archetypal mollusc of Huxley's was a creature with a bilaterally symmetrical head and body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archetypal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: classic; exemplary; ideal; model; original; proverbial; quintessential; representative; typical