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    unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized: ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit. 'that which moves without being moved') or prime mover (Latin:...
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    ("teleological argument"). Aquinas expands the first of these – God as the "unmoved mover" – in his Summa Contra Gentiles. Aquinas thought the finite human mind...
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  • responsible for fashioning the universe, referred to as the demiurge or the unmoved mover, that today would be categorized as cosmological arguments. Other arguments...
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  • idea of a first cause, often confused with the idea of a "prime mover" or "unmoved mover" (πρῶτον κινοῦν ἀκίνητον or primus motor) in his Physics and Metaphysics...
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  • prime mover or prime movers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prime mover may refer to: Unmoved mover, a concept in Aristotle's writings Prime mover (engine...
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  • People mover, a type of mass-transit Prime mover (disambiguation) Unmoved mover, a philosophical concept of that which moves all but is unmoved by everything...
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    Arcite. Theseus begins with a reference to the First Mover, the primum movens, or unmoved mover of Aristotelian philosophy creating the “Great Chain of...
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    of the universe while rejecting Aristotle's conception of God as the unmoved mover, along with several of the latter's views such as denial of God as creator...
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  • mover may refer to: Unmoved mover, a concept in Aristotle's philosophy First-mover advantage in marketing First-move advantage in chess Prime mover (disambiguation)...
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  • is the origin of all things. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) held that the unmoved mover "must be an immortal, unchanging being, ultimately responsible for all...
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  • The One Chinese theology § Confucian theology Averroism Socinianism Unmoved mover Watchmaker God Movements 18th-century England and France Christian Deism...
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    driven by a single unmoved mover at the periphery of the universe. The spheres thus moved with a "natural nonviolent motion". The mover's power diminished...
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  • common starting point and construct a cosmological argument for an unmoved mover, Van Tillian presuppositionalists would ask for a justification for...
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  • Spirit Misotheism Pandeism Personal god Process theology Supreme Being Unmoved mover God in Abrahamic religions Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam Jainism...
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  • necessary, from the originated to the eternal origin, or from motion to the unmoved mover. In the argument of the righteous, there is no middle term other than...
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  • all phenomena arise in dependence on other phenomena, hence no primal unmoved mover could be acknowledged or discerned. Gautama Buddha, in the early Buddhist...
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    interpret the agent intellect as a single divine being, perhaps the unmoved mover, Aristotle's God. A third interpretation relies on the theory that an...
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  • God is Plato's Demiurge (divine Craftsman), followed by Aristotle's unmoved mover, both of which would profoundly influence Jewish and Christian theology...
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  • Open theism Personal god Phenomenological definition Philo's view Process Tian Unmoved mover Names of God in Christianity Hinduism Islam Jainism Judaism...
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  • fifty spheres. An unmoved mover is assumed for each sphere, including a "prime mover" for the sphere of fixed stars. The unmoved movers do not push the...
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  • often understood to have equated the active intellect with being the "unmoved mover" and God. Nevertheless, as Davidson remarks: Just what Aristotle meant...
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  • Comparative mythology Deism Christian deism Moralistic therapeutic deism Unmoved mover Ethical monotheism Fitra God gene Hanif Irreligion Agnostic theism Nontheism...
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  • Occasionalism Pandeist Personal Process-theological Summum bonum Supreme Being Unmoved mover Existence By religion Abrahamic Baháʼí Christianity Islam Judaism Mormonism...
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  • "being" primarily refers to the Unmoved Movers, and assigned one of these to each movement in the heavens. Each Unmoved mover continuously contemplates its...
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    Occasionalism Pandeist Personal Process-theological Summum bonum Supreme Being Unmoved mover Existence By religion Abrahamic Baháʼí Christianity Islam Judaism Mormonism...
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    Occasionalism Pandeist Personal Process-theological Summum bonum Supreme Being Unmoved mover Existence By religion Abrahamic Baháʼí Christianity Islam Judaism Mormonism...
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    Open theism Personal god Phenomenological definition Philo's view Process Tian Unmoved mover Names of God in Christianity Hinduism Islam Jainism Judaism...
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  • from these Platonic roots, arguing that God was the Infinite, or the Unmoved Mover. Hellenic Christians and their medieval successors applied this form-based...
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  • Aristotle's Metaphysics, the necessarily prior cause of eternal motion was an unmoved mover, who, like the object of desire, or of thought, inspires motion without...
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    Summum bonum Tawhid Theological veto Transcendence Trinity Supreme Being Unmoved mover Spirit Worship Founding figures Jesus (Christianity) Muhammad (Islam)...
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