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  • But unless there be some grand pervading principle — some invisible, yet most distinctly stamped archetypus of the great whole, a poem like the Iliad can never come to the birth.

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

  • But unless there be some grand pervading principle — some invisible, yet most distinctly stamped archetypus of the great whole, a poem like the Iliad can never come to the birth.

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • Kant distinguishes between two possible forms of reason, the intellectus archetypus and the intellectus ectypus.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • College at Quito, I have myself read the inscription, 'Penduli simplicis aequinoctialis unius minuti secundi archetypus, mensurae naturalis exemplar, utinam universalis!'

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • But unless there be some grand pervading principle — some invisible, yet most distinctly stamped archetypus of the great whole, a poem like the Iliad can never come to the birth.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

  • But unless there be some grand pervading principle -- some invisible, yet most distinctly stamped archetypus of the great whole, a poem like the

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

  • (the intellectus archetypus) is possible - even though declared to be beyond man - Kant regarded as superfluous, because the fact was enough for him 'that we are led to the Idea of it - which contains no contradiction - in contrast to our discursive understanding, which has need of images (intellectus ectypus), and to the contingency of its constitution'.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Goethe called this reflective understanding ”anschauende Urteilskraft” perceptive judgment, a human intellectus archetypus.

    The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009

  • Kant called this ”intellectus archetypus”, and thought only a divine being possessed such a faculty.

    The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009

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