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primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) or "mover" of all the motion in the universe. As is implicit...

non-eternal universe would require a first uncaused cause – in his terminology, an efficient first cause – an idea he considered a nonsensical flaw in...

philosophical analysis of the properties of the cause of the universe: If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists...

the world have a cause, and nothing is the cause of itself, so everything in the world must have a first cause or an uncaused cause. The necessary being...

God's self-existence and independence from anything else. God is the uncaused cause, existing by the necessity of His own nature, and does not depend on...

Allah is al-Samad [ar] (The Ultimate Source of all existence, The uncaused cause Who created all things out of nothing, Who is eternal, absolute, immutable...

unity, is rational and deterministic, emanating from indeterminism an uncaused cause. Each individual as a microcosm reflects the gradual ordering of the...

universe must have a cause, culminating in an ultimate uncaused cause. (See Four causes) However, David Hume argued that a cause may not be necessary...

respect). 2. Allah is al-Samad (the Ultimate Source of all existence, the uncaused cause who created all things out of nothing, who is eternal, absolute, immutable...

still need to respond to. If intelligent design proponents invoke an uncaused causer or deity to resolve this problem, they contradict a fundamental assumption...

respect). 2. Allah is al-Samad (the Ultimate Source of all existence, the Uncaused Cause who created all things out of nothing, who is eternal, absolute, immutable...

universe is uncaused), Aquinas argues that an infinite chain never accomplishes its objective and is thus impossible. Hence, a first cause is necessary...

the teleological purpose of all things. Aristotle theorized a first uncaused cause for all motion in the universe and viewed it as perfectly beautiful...

like him); God is As-Samad(the ultimate source of all existence, the uncaused cause who created all things out of nothing, who is eternal, absolute, immutable...

emerged first in the history of thought, it [aseity] affirms that God is uncaused, depending on no other being for the source of His existence. In its positive...

the first entity to "move" or "cause" anything. Aristotle was one of the first philosophers to discuss the "uncaused cause", a hypothetical originator—and...

one possible way for the world to exist. Leucippus claimed there are no uncaused events and that everything occurs for a reason and by necessity. Predeterminism...

changed, can change and is subject to cause and effect. Purusha is the universal principle that is unchanging, uncaused but is present everywhere and the...

it describes an ultimate ontological truth. 'The One' is both 'uncaused' and the cause of being for everything else in the universe. Plotinus compared...

to counteract them; that responsibility does not require behavior to be uncaused, only that it respond to praise and blame; and that meaning in life does...