Therefore if one was to define the First Cause, each of the terms used would actually constitute a " part " of its substance and therefore behave as a " cause " for its existence, which is impossible as the First Cause is uncaused; it exists without being caused.
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These include arguments for an unmoved mover, first, uncaused cause and ( supernatural ) supreme intelligence, concluding that these must exist not as a matter of probability-as in the intelligent design view, particularly of irreducible complexity-but as a necessary consequence of " obvious, though empirical, starting points ".
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Others think that, because'free will'in the sense of spontaneous, uncaused causation of our actions is impossible, morality is very different from what we thought ( e . g . it doesn't consist of praising some people and blaming others for making particular choices, since they could never have chosen otherwise ).
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Most modern authors fix on aseity ( Aseitas; a = " from " se = " himself " ), or self-existence; for the reason that, while all other existences are derived from, and depend on, God, He possesses in Himself, absolutely and independently, the entire reason of His uncaused infinite Being.
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Pinker claims these fears are selfish motives, only that it has other motives to counteract them; that responsibility doesn't require behavior to be uncaused, only that it respond to praise and blame; and that meaning in life doesn't require that the process that shaped the brain must have a purpose, only that the brain itself must have purposes.
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With the transcendental determination of time as the transcendental schema, " & use of the categories is clearly restricted to the range of things that fall within time & mdash; meaning, for Kant, restricted to phenomena . " Metaphysical entities that are not related to time, such as spontaneous or uncaused movements, immortal souls, and eternal gods, are products of unschematized categories.
