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What (who) is first cause - definition

POSTULATED ULTIMATE CAUSE OF ALL ACTIVITY IN THE UNIVERSE
Aristotelian theology; First cause; First Cause; Primum movens; Uncaused causer; Uncaused cause; Unmoved Mover; Primus motor; Aristotelian view of god; Prime mover theory; Principle of unmoved mover; Causeless cause; Unmoved movers; Aristotelian view of a god; Aristotelian view of God; Sphere of the prime mover; Prime mover (philosophy); Ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ; First uncaused cause

First Cause         
¦ noun Philosophy a supposed ultimate cause of all events, which does not itself have a cause, identified with God.
Causeless cause         
Causeless cause (or all cause) is "An Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless, and Immutable Principle"Helena Petrona Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Theosophical Publishing House, 1982 [1888], pp. 14 and 108.
Aristotelian theology         
Aristotelian theology and the scholastic view of God have been influential in Western philosophy and intellectual history.

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Unmoved mover

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. As is implicit in the name, the unmoved mover moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. In Book 12 (Greek: Λ) of his Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: self-contemplation. He equates this concept also with the active intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations of the earliest Greek pre-Socratic philosophers and became highly influential and widely drawn upon in medieval philosophy and theology. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, elaborated on the unmoved mover in the Quinque viae.

Examples of use of first cause
1. Now‘s first cause was the sexually segregated help–wanted advertisements.
2. God is the first cause, the unmoved mover, but more importantly, God is in us," he tells them.
3. The first cause of offence were given by the party which uses the Protestant name to cover its misdeeds.
4. His first cause for concern was the excruciating headaches which regularly plagued him. ‘I‘d had them for two or three years.
5. God is the first cause, the unmoved mover, but more importantly, God is in us,‘‘ he tells them. GOD IS IN YOU!‘‘ That‘s enough, he says. We‘ve got a long journey into the wilderness.‘‘ Privacy policy | Terms & conditions | Advertising guide | A–Z index | About this site