That is why I have taken the great trouble to do a critique of the proof in its popularly presented form myself on the basis of the relevant literature.
Unmovable mover though it has become very long, I think it is worth reading if you are interested in such things. I start with a summary of the proof. The summary refers to the full argument of the currently most famous Thomism movdr Edward Feser in his book "The Last Superstition".
I may be unmovable mover accused of not doing justice to Feser, but I think the summary gets to the heart of the basic idea, and this is how the proof is mostly presented orally. The rest explains itself, if one reads the critical quotations.
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Here is the summary of the alleged proof: "In Chapter 3 Feser discusses three of St. Thomas's magnificent five ways, describing the first way with unmovanle clarity and succinctness. Noting that "no potential can make itself actual" p. Thomas's well known example of a man pushing a stone with a stick. The stone's potency to move is actualized by the stick, whose potency to move is actualized by the hand, whose potency to unmovable mover is in turn actualized by the firing of certain motor neurons, and so forth.
In this, an essentially subordinated series, each actualized potency is simultaneously actualized by a superior. Feser notes that such a series "of unmovable mover nature, must have a first member" because "it is only the first member which is in the strictest sense really doing or actualizing anything" p.
Without a first Pure Act [God] free from all admixture of potency, there are no other actualities, nor can there be, since all others "exist at all only insofar as yet earlier ones do" p. Aquinas would add: "this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover, seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are moved by the first mover. Aquinas thinks that if the mover of some moved thing is not itself moved, unmovable mover is an unmovable mover []
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