A man who is ignorant in a subject will not become an expert in this subject by himself. Everything is drawn toward it and things change because they are attempting to reach the unmoved mover/god (ibid.). The unmoved mover draws everything in the sense that it is the goal of all change. If potency means a lack, evidently this being in potency could not give to itself what it does not have. Aristotle called this the unmoved mover: the ultimate cause of everything including motion and change. In the world of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes. Conclusion: There must be a mover that causes motion in all: that unmoved mover is God. All physical and natural beings in our world (animals, plants, humans, stars) are movable entities.Įverything that is in motion is moved by something elseĪ being in potency cannot by itself pass from potency to act.įor example, the wood that has the potency to be a table cannot itself make this change, because potency presupposes a lack, a deficiency, a relative non-being now, in order for a being to pass from potency to act by itself, it would have to be potency and act at the same time under the same aspect, which is impossible ontologically. Premise 2: An infinite chain of movers without a beginning can have no successive movers. It’s moving other things, it’s changing other things, without itself. Aristotle argues such an unmoved mover is purely actual. 3 As is implicit in the name, the unmoved mover moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. There must be an uncaused cause, an unchanging changer, an unmoving mover the first domino. The unmoved mover ( Ancient Greek :) 1 or prime mover ( Latin: primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) 2 or 'mover' of all the motion in the universe. Movable (or moved) means that being that receives change, that moves, in our example it is wood. There must be a root changer a cause of change that itself was uncaused responsible for all successive changes. For example, the carpenter is the motor of the movement that makes the wood, a table in act. The unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ,1 ho ou kinomenon kine, that which moves without being moved) or prime mover (Latin: primum.
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