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by itself. Because Aristotle grasps the fact that the first mover cannot be moved by «nothing» 3⁄4 for it is impossible for any of us to conceive or inductively prove that «nothing» can potentially or actually move «something» (following the pre and post-Socratic perspective reflected best in the medieval slogan «Ex Nihilo Nihil») 3⁄4 he is confident that the first mover has to be moved by «something» or by «some greater or superior reality» for it to effectively act as the first principle or primordial cause. Such «somethingness» or such «realitiness», Aristotle concludes, must be that the first mover is a self-moved entity, that is, an unmoved first mover, unmoved by something else. Second, Aristotle also grasps that the microcosm and macrocosm are inter-related and that they are a mirror-image of one another. Because human beings are a reflection of the universe, Aristotle effectively argues that there must be an unmoved first mover for the same very reason that human beings (animals) are not moved by something else in order to be the cause of motion of things (Phys. 8, 256b1 10-20). As humans are self-moved entities, so must the universe be self- moved and be equally and perfectly capable of being the source of its own agency and of causing motion.
This concept, in effect, confirms that it is impossible for motion to exist without a cause, for there must be «something», some
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