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The unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized: ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit. 'that which moves without being moved') or prime mover (Latin: 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.
May 25, 2024 · The stars and planets seek to imitate the perfection of the unmoved mover by moving about the Earth in a circle, the most perfect of shapes. For this to be the case, of course, the heavenly bodies must have souls capable of feeling love for the unmoved mover.
May 26, 2006 · A further requirement is that the mover of these eternal circular motions has to be unmoved. But then the actuality of this mover should not be restricted to a causally efficacious single property. Rather, the mover should be actual all way through.
Nov 15, 2012 · Aristotle conceives of God as an unmoved mover, the primary cause responsible for the shapeliness of motion in the natural order, and as divine nous, the perfect actuality of thought thinking itself, which, as the epitome of substance, exercises its influence on natural beings as their final cause.
- R. Michael Olson
- rolson@smcvt.edu
- 2013
Nov 6, 2023 · As between the man and the woman, the woman is the "unmoved-mover", being an object of desire for the man. She stimulates the man to come over to her. She is an unmoved mover because she did NOT engage in any specific activity to bring the man closer to her or to have him initiate conversation.
Oct 8, 2000 · The primary immovable mover, therefore, is one both in account and in number. And so, therefore, is what is moved always and continuously. Therefore, there is only one heaven. (1074 a 31–38) What accounts for the unity of the heaven, then, is that the movements in it are traceable back to a single cause: the prime or primary mover.
For everything that changes is something and is changed by something and into something. That by which it is changed is the immediate mover; that which is changed, the matter; that into which it is changed, the form.
