PHILOS 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unmoved Mover
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God at the end of the argument 2. A mover which is moved, a moved mover, or. A mover which is not moved, an unmoved mover. A moved mover is intermediate, says aristotle, meaning that it must come between other items. 2 moved mover (1) (moved by an unmoved mover) 3 moved movers (2) (moved by moved mover 1) 4 moved movers (3) (moved by moved mover 2) 5 moved movers (4) (moved by moved mover 3) 6 moved movers (5) (moved by moved mover 4) 7 moved movers (6) (moved by moved mover 5) But if a moved mover is the first moved mover- moved mover (1) in the series- The items coming before and after it could not also both be moved movers. At that point, with an unmoved mover, the whole series of movements and changes ends (or rather begins) One kind of reason was observational, in the context of greek natural science- astronomy and cosmology.
