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3.1 Fate

1 What is caused and what is fate/destiny?

The Firsts of the Eternal Existents cannot be referred to outside Causes
Acts are caused by Essence
Things of Process/Eternal Existents whose Act is not eternally invariable are caused by the earlier Firsts

"causelessness is inadmissible"

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Fate isn't coherent at all in atomistic theory
Atoms may be able to explain material realities, but certainly not the soul or intellect

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Prime Mover argument
- too vague and deterministic
- there must be thoughts and acts which are our own

5
Augury/the Phora
- causation by one's relationship with heavenly bodies
- also makes our choices, wills, states, evils in us, etc. pointless

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Causes are found in one's following of it's own kind
- horses come from the Kind of horse

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There should be causation in the individual Soul
- the Soul does not have unrestricted sovereignty
- causation of the nobler Soul is greater(insofar as it acts with regard to Reason-Principle)
- The more wise a person is, the more they change others more than others change him

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There is causation of the Soul and of the environment

Fated acts occur due to unreason