be moved by itself, it does not follow that it must be moved by something else. Why cannot it just be in motion, without being moved by anything, whether itself or anything else?", asks Thomist scholar Anthony Kenney. Kenney notes that the proof is incomplete since it never specifically addresses the question of whether any mover at all (let alone a first, unmoved one) is really necessary to explain motion.
Kenney also puts the lie to Premises Four and Six. He contends that, whereas it is true that something cannot be both actuall
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