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Question: Where would i find references regarding Archetypes as a Philosophy!?
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This is how Plato's archetypes worked:
"The "extreme realists" or Platonists, … hold that abstractions exist as real entities or archetypes in another dimension of reality and that the concretes we perceive are merely their imperfect reflections, but the concretes evoke the abstractions in our mind!. (According to Plato, they do so by evoking the memory of the archetypes which we had known, before birth, in that other dimension!.)"
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 2!.

Notice that the first sentence said "Platonists, … hold that!.!.!."
This means such thoughts still exist!.

Aristotle put the archetypes "in the things themselves!."
Kant put them in "noumena," the opposite of "phenomena!."
They are considered to be more than "concepts," i!.e!., to have a substance of their own!.
The Stoics called them concepts and put them in the mind!. Only one modern philosopher has put them in the mind, Ayn Rand!.

But here are some others:
http://www!.iloveulove!.com/psychology/jun!.!.!.
http://www!.herowithin!.com/arch101!.html
http://www!.aynrandlexicon!.com/lexicon/co!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well I'll give you the most obvious and famous example!.!.!.It all started with Plato, and his theory of the Forms!.

His theory is all over his writings including in the Cratylus, Meno, Parmenidies, Phaedo, and it gets lots of time in the Republic!.

So basically, read Plato's Republic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"The Archetypal Kingdom," Ann Ree Colton!.Www@QuestionHome@Com