The Concept of the Prime Mover

The idea of a prime mover emphasizes the necessity of an initial cause for existence, arguing against the notion of something creating itself. A self-creation contradicts the laws of logic, as it necessitates existence before the act of creating. This leads to the conclusion that without a prime mover, one could get stuck in an endless regress of causes with no origin. The argument posits that an uncaused entity must exist to explain the initiation of everything else, asserting the existence of a non-contingent being that serves as the ground of all existence.