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Examples Of The Unmoved Mover By Aristotle

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work was the platform for his lectures. His philosophy and wisdom were practical. “God has many names, though he is only one being” (Aristotle). He believed that there is only one God and he associated this belief through Metaphysics; the “unmoved mover”. His reasoning for this is that the universe (heavens) is constantly a moving entity and it is eternal. Since it is in constant motion this is how it communicates to all living things. This mover is unchanging in nature and it has the ability to be something else. The unmoved mover’s purpose is to move different things while unmoved and eternal. This mover created the universe (heavens) without moving. This could have happened within itself or by way of another entity. However, Aristotle believed

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