Sentence examples for realm of Forms from inspiring English sources
Plato had held that, in addition to particular things, there exists a suprasensible realm of Forms, which are immutable and everlasting.
An in-crowd modernist whose clients include fashionable souls like Fabien Baron and Narciso Rodriguez, Ms. Berke went rooting around in Plato's realm of forms last year to design her own furniture collection.
Is that a realm of Forms?
This affinity is so strong that the soul strives to leave the body in which it is imprisoned and to dwell in the realm of Forms.
Relatedly, unlike other Platonisms, Ibn Gabirol's higher realm is not theorized as a realm of forms but as a realm of form and matter (again see section 5.1 on how the talk of Intellect leads us to the talk of forms "in" matter).
On the next level, a series of reliefs depict rupa-dhatu (the middle sphere and "the realm of form") through events in the life of the Gautama Buddha and scenes from the Jatakas (stories of his previous lives).
When Cinderella's Fairy Godmother introduces her to the world of classical dance, personified by four Season fairies and a corps de ballet of a dozen Stars, we move into a new realm of form, where Ashton's wealth of vocabulary and luxurious style expand the whole stage world immensely.
The first is as phenomena or events (shi 事), which is equivalent to the realm of form.
The Neo-Platonists (such as Plotinus, 205-270) taught a world-system of emanation, whereby the One (like Plato's Form of the Good) flowed into Intellect (the realm of the Forms) and from there into the World-Soul and individual souls, where it encountered the realm of bodies, from where it returned to itself ('the flight of the alone to the alone').
Plato envisioned a higher realm of ideal forms, of perfect chairs, circles or galaxies, of which the phenomena of the sensible world were just flawed reflections.
Indeed, if you were looking for a store here on earth to represent Plato's realm of the forms, you would be dumbfounded in Dehillerin, just north of the Louvre.
