Sentence examples for cause of itself from inspiring English sources

Against the Free Will Thesis, Nietzsche argues that a free agent (that is, one sufficiently free to be morally responsible) would have to be causa sui (i.e., self-caused, or the cause of itself); but since we are not causa sui, no one can be a free agent.

Nothing is a cause of itself.

Buras' second premise is that nothing is a cause of itself.

Thus, the I is both cause of itself and conceives itself alone in itself.

This I is not only cause of itself (causa sui; Eckhart, deepening the tradition of this concept, says sache mîn selbes: "cause of myself"; cf. Summerell, 2002).

The first is that, the whole of all "essentially ordered" causes must have a cause, but if the cause of this multitude comes from the totality of caused causes, then this cause will be the cause of itself, which is impossible.

When cotton and its substitutes were weakly held at extravagant prices, the sudden occurrence of so great a catastrophe must have caused of itself many failures.

New hope--and this is the great cause of America itself--that we shall overcome once and for all the setting of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay.

May it not also be that the cause of civilisation itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen?

In the letter, released on Friday, the doctors denounce the Hutton report as a "whitewash" which "failed adequately to address the cause of death itself and the manner of death".

Worse, force can be modeled mathematically, as he argues in chapter 2, and it can be jointly determined by two quantities, as he argues in chapter 3. "God" is merely a placeholder for the cause of force itself.