Any weblinks about Aristotle's Immovable Mover?

[I. Kant]

Is anyone familiar with aristotle's theory of the immovable mover? Any links about it? I first read about it in Atlas Shrugged, when Francisco got the money to buy a mine and explaining it to his father. I tried google, but I couldn't find anything useful.

[ZiggyKD]

I don't remember this reference in Atlas, but nevertheless...

See if this is useful:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:HFCgV...aristotle&hl=en

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:HFCgV...aristotle&hl=en

The actual urls are given at the top of the page.

[I. Kant]

Thanks! now I know what Aristotle is talking about, and the books he spoke about it in.

[ZiggyKD]

Could you possibly refer me to the page where this is mentioned in Atlas?

[I. Kant]

Oh yeah, hold on a second.

In the soft cover version its on the bottom half of page 110. In Chapter 5.

[ZiggyKD]

Sorry about both links going to the same page, meant to post this one along with the first one (though I think the first one provides all the info you need):

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:d_GUh...stotle%22&hl=en

And thanks for the reference.

By the way, not sure how proficient you are at using google, but it's definitely a skill worth learning. The search string I used was: "immovable mover" "aristotle." This means search for articles matching these phrases exactly, with the phrases appearing in any order in the document.

[AMERICONORMAN]

One of several things that I am reading at the same time is Aristotle’s Metaphysics. I would like to post something in the near future about the immovable mover. But here’s a poem I dug up that I wrote about seven years ago; I now feel nostalgic about my earlier youth. The idea had caught my attention back then and I had connected it to the idea of love and “the hardest to conquer”. It is not a good poem; it’s okay. But maybe someone will find it sweet or at least amusing.

Moving The Mover

I

Subsuming reality

Are ideas with words

As symbols,

Useful --

potentially --

To make you believe.

Mine are on paper

After perfection,

But slower.

Yours are a dialogue

In space --

Processed by reason,

Stored in memory,

And deduced into action,

Yet scattered

By the objects of your will --

Howling Paraphrases

With improper syllogism,

But subconscious revelation

Without introspection --

Imperatively subtle,

Masterfully skilled,

Hidden

Where most fear to peer into.

II

And they rarely ask “why?”

And find no answers

To questions they dare not ask.

I accepted the dare,

Asked the questions,

Peered into my heart of darkness,

And inevitably saw the light:

Found catch phrases

With no starting points,

With cloudy implications.

I saw ends with no means,

And means with out ends.

I saw my dreams replaced

By your style

And your theme,

Unanalyzed,

No judgment,

“All good!”

Though I wasn’t mistaken,

I couldn’t find answers.

And in search of reason

I stumbled on fear.

And then what would happen:

A state of confusion.

Hiding behind visions

And thinking with dreams.

III

Fortune in constant persistence,

though,

After a new theme,

Gradual courage,

And momentous serenity.

When I realized your theme

And developed my own.

You were constantly testing,

Searching for truth,

A sense of security;

Jumping from whim to whim --

stone to stone --

Hardly getting wet,

A masterful skill.

I had started my quest

And couldn’t engage

In the worship of whims;

And then came my theme.

To understand what I see,

And accept what I must,

And work for the answers.

IV

I found what had moved them:

An immovable mover,

With a multi-faceted integrity

In guise;

Who moved me to introspect,

And display what I found,

And portray what could be,

To assure what should be.

Introversion,

as the essence

Of this immovable mover,

Who indulged in the actions

Of pseudo-introverts

And many extroverts.

In Retrospect I found,

That to be made,

The “we” must be earned,

And the “I” must be found.

Free will is the key,

Strong will is the force;

The guide in pursuit

Of the immovable mover;

To acknowledge the metaphysical “I”

And to love the man-made “we.”

An Ironic effect

When the immovable mover

Peers into his soul

To discover he was moved --

As he moves others --

By the honest will of another

And all the truth it entails.

And so I lusted to move

You

Immovable mover.

[Kellymeg80]

The scene in AS is when Fransisco is telling is father he got the money to buy his first mine by playing the stock market while writing a thesis on the affects of Aristotle's theory of The Immovable Mover on later philosophic systems.

Yeah, I've read that book 20 times. I'm Random Atlas trivia girl.

[F*ckCommunism]

In which of Aristotle's writings do we find the theory of the immovable mover? I have searched it and found summaries of the theory, but mostly descriptions or explanations on aquinas' writings.

[I. Kant]

Metaphysics, Book V