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-- has Final Cause or Function -- the act of total understanding (Efficient Cause Does Not Apply) ... "GOD"; what Aristotle calls; THE FULLY SELF-ACTUALIZED ONE; THE UNMOVED MOVER; THE SELF-THINKING ACT OF TOTAL INSIGHT...
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facstaff.elon.edu/sullivan/ari-view.htm
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Dating back to Aristotle, the cosmological argument is very probably the oldest argument offered in support of the existence of God, and probably the most frequently used by lay apologists as well. As formulated above by Thomas Aquinas, the cosmological argument states that every event has a cause;
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www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/unmovedmover.html
www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/unmovedmover.html
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After thirteen years in Athens, Aristotle once again found cause to retire from the city, in 323. Probably his departure was occasioned by ... but it reaches further, so that it includes also a theory of causal explanation and finally even a proof of an unmoved mover thought to be the first and final cause of all motion.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/
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This is the person who makes an object, or "unmoved movers" (gods) who move nature. For example, "a father is a cause of his child; ... The final cause is that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done, ... For a better understanding of Aristotle's conception of "chance" it might be better to think of "coincidence":
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www.crystalinks.com/aristotle.html
www.crystalinks.com/aristotle.html
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PART V; FINAL INTERPRETATION in: ... [519] So long as the temporal world is conceived as a self-sufficient completion of the creative act, explicable by its derivation from an ultimate principle which is at once eminently real and the unmoved mover, ... The notion of God as the ‘unmoved mover’ is derived from Aristotle,
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www.forizslaszlo.com/filozofia/folyamat_es_valosag/Whit...
www.forizslaszlo.com/filozofia/folyamat_es_valosag/Whitehead_PR_Part5_Final_Interpratation.pdf
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That the heaven as a whole neither came into being nor admits of destruction, as some assert, but is one and eternal, with no end or beginning of its total duration, Further, since everything that is moved is moved by something, the cause of the irregularity of movement must lie either in the mover or in the moved or both.
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classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html
classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html
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tried to integrate the thought of Aristotle with Christianity; ... each emergent has 1. a structure differing from the structure of its constituents and 2. a function peculiar to its level; ... and 4. final the end (entelechy) or purpose of actualization. The Final Cause of all reality is an unchanging, unmoved mover or pure form.
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www.100megsfree4.com/dictionary/theology/tdica.htm
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The divine nous, as pure act, first transcendent cause, unmoved mover and final goal of the cosmos–these are all only theistic masks which hide the hypostasis of human reason. They are the idol-Ideas of immanence philosophy. ... Its understanding of the relation between philosophy and life- and world-view follow the same line.
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www.members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Mainheadings/Prolegomena8...
www.members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Mainheadings/Prolegomena8.html
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