Single Idea 1899

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement]

Full Idea

Self-movement must move in some particular direction, but if it pushes it will be behind itself, and if it pulls it will be in front of itself.

Gist of Idea

Does the original self-mover push itself from behind, or pull itself from in front?

Source

Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism [c.180], III.68)

Book Reference

Sextus Empiricus: 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Prometheus 1990], p.212


A Reaction

This is the same as Aquinas's First Way of proving God's existence.