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Quotation from Metaphysics by Aristotle
“The final cause, then, produces motion as being loved, but all other things move by being moved”
Metaphysics, Book XII (Lambda), Part 7, trans. W. D. Ross (1908)
The heart of the argument for the unmoved mover: it causes motion not by pushing but as an object of desire.
Citation: "The final cause, then, produces motion as being loved, but all other things move by being moved" — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book XII (Lambda), Part 7, trans. W. D. Ross (1908). (id aristotle-metaphysics-q8)
