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''Causa sui'' ((:kawsa sʊi), meaning "cause of itself" in Latin) denotes something which is generated within itself. This concept was central to the works of Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Becker, where it relates to the purpose that objects can assign to themselves. In Freud and Becker's case, the concept was often used as an immortality vessel, where something could create meaning or continue to create meaning beyond its own life. In traditional Western theism, even though God cannot be created by any other force or being, he cannot be defined self-caused (''causa sui'') or uncaused, because this concept implies the Spinozian pantheistic idea of becoming, which contrasts with the belief of scholastic theology that God is incapable of changing. Changing implies development, and since God is to be considered the Absolute Perfection, there is no further need to change: he is the so-called ''actus purus'' or aseity.〔 (P. 413 ).ISBN 978-0-82322-532-3.〕〔 (P. 384 ). ISBN 978-0-80286-533-5.〕〔 (P. 302 ). ISBN 978-9-05972-366-5.〕 Instead, the recent process theology inserts this concept among the attributes of God in Christianity. On the other hand, Baba Nanak defined God as self-existent in his bani Japji.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sri Granth )〕 ==See also== * Aseity * ''Actus purus'' * Causality * Existentialism * For-itself * Immutability (theology) * ''Primum movens'' * Process theology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「causa sui」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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