(Originally written July 4, 2006 in Book 2)
The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
1974
Chapter 9 - The Atomists
"The conception of purpose, therefore, is only applicable within reality, not to reality as a whole" (Russell, 67).
Both the teleological process and mechanistic process lead back to the uncaused creator. All causal explanations have an arbitrary beginning.
It is for this reason the atomists left the original movements of atoms unaccounted for.
Atomists believed thought is motion and thus can cause motion.
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