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Explain the Cosmological Argument Plato's argument is based on the idea that a thing cannot be self-moving. By this he means that if, for instance, we see a ball flying through the air, we must assume that something caused that ball to move. If we then say that the ball moved because a bat hit it, we can then ask what caused the bat to move - and so on infinitely. From this Plato concludes that there must be some first cause of motion, which is not itself, the result of some other cause. For Plato, this was "Soul" or "Life", which gave motion to the whole world. Aristotle tries to prove that movement is eternal and that there is an eternal Prime Mover. He argues that since movement is eternal there can be no first or last change. If there was a first change there would have to have existed something capable...

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