Primum movens

"Primum movens" (Latin: first cause) is a term used in philosophical and theological arguments for the existence of God in connection with thinking about the spontaneous generation of life, as well as about cosmogonies and the source of the cosmos or "all-being". In book 12 of his Metaphysics, Aristotle used the phrase polytonic|τι ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ ("something which moves [other things] without [itself] being moved [by anything] ") [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0051:book=12:section=1072a] -- i.e., the prime mover. The question he worked on, was one of the origin of existence and motion. "Being is motion" is the first thought. Motion is a "caused" change in the state of being. Causality is a logical concept and even more a concept of perception. In principle it is based on a reduction, because causality is linear. Once started with such linear reduction, the causality/motion is finally reduced to the "ultimate cause", which only by logic is unmoved, i.e. the unmoved mover.

ee also

* Cosmological argument

References

* Louis Pasteur, cf. f. i. René Dubos, "Louis Pasteur - Free Lance of Science", 1986, s. pg. 113
* Andreä, "Die chymische Hochzeit". Christiani Rosenkreutz", 1616

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