Primum movens 1621969 225029193 2008-07-11T15:19:56Z 89.216.93.113 '''''Primum movens''''' (Latin: [[first cause]]) is a term used in [[philosophy|philosophical]] and [[theology|theological]] [[arguments for the existence of God]] in connection with thinking about the [[spontaneous generation]] of life, as well as about [[cosmogony|cosmogonies]] and the source of the [[cosmos]] or "all-being". [[Aristotle]] saw the ''primum movens'' (Gr. proton kinun) as the "mover unmoved" -- the [[Cosmological argument|prime mover]]. The question he worked on, in Lambda (XII) book of ''Metaphysics'', was one of the origin of existence and motion. "Being is motion" is the first thought. Motion is a ''caused'' change in the state of being. Causality is a logical concept and even more a concept of perception. In principle it is based on a reduction, because causality is linear. Once started with such linear reduction, the causality/motion is finally reduced to the ''ultimate cause'', which only by logic is unmoved, i.e. the unmoved mover. ==See also== * [[Cosmological argument]] ==References== * [[Louis Pasteur]], cf. f. i. René Dubos, "Louis Pasteur - Free Lance of Science", 1986, s. pg. 113 * Andreä, ''Die chymische Hochzeit''. Christiani Rosenkreutz", 1616 [[Category:theology]] [[Category:Philosophy of religion]] [[Category:cosmology]] {{religion-stub}} {{philosophy-stub}}