Single Idea 273

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning]

Full Idea

Motion is transmitted to innumerable things, and this must spring from some initial principle, which must be the change effected by self-generated motion.

Gist of Idea

Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion

Source

Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 895a)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.424