| 11. | However, arguably at least, Aristotle's concept of the unmoved mover owed much to Plato's Idea of the Good.
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| 12. | In that passage Aristotle appears to equate the active intellect with the " unmoved mover " and God.
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| 13. | In his " divine unmoved mover, and who moves its sphere simply by virtue of being loved by it.
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| 14. | Because they eternally inspire uniform motion in the celestial spheres, the unmoved movers must themselves be eternal and unchanging.
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| 15. | The Aristotelian view of God grew from these Platonic roots, arguing that God was the Infinite, or the Unmoved mover.
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| 16. | Aristotle philosophized the notion of the unmoved mover, which is that which gave the universe its first motion.
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| 17. | Aquinas expands the first of these God as the " unmoved mover " in his " Summa Contra Gentiles ".
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| 18. | As is implicit in the name, the " unmoved mover " moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action.
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| 19. | Rather, it is a widely accepted principle in Indian philosophy, commonly used to reject arguments for a creator God or " unmoved mover ".
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| 20. | The agent is a sort of unmoved mover, capable of willing events into existence without itself being the effect of causes beyond its control.
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