Can any1 help me understand this philosophical statement better?

Question:We must not say that every event involved in the act is caused by some other event; and we not say that the act is something that is not caused at all. The possibility that remains therefore is this: We should say that at least one of the events that are involved in the act is caused, not by any other events, but by soemthing else instead. and this something else can only be the agent - the man. If there is an event that is caused, not by other events but only by the man, then there are some events involved in the act that are not caused by other events. of course a large sequence is implying something of considerable importance about the nature of the agent or the man, if we are responsible then we have a perogative which some would attribute only to god: each of us when we act is a prime mover unmoved. in doing what we do we cause certain events to happen and nothing or noone causes us to cause those events to happen. any help would be great.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: We must not say that every event involved in the act is caused by some other event; and we not say that the act is something that is not caused at all. The possibility that remains therefore is this: We should say that at least one of the events that are involved in the act is caused, not by any other events, but by soemthing else instead. and this something else can only be the agent - the man. If there is an event that is caused, not by other events but only by the man, then there are some events involved in the act that are not caused by other events. of course a large sequence is implying something of considerable importance about the nature of the agent or the man, if we are responsible then we have a perogative which some would attribute only to god: each of us when we act is a prime mover unmoved. in doing what we do we cause certain events to happen and nothing or noone causes us to cause those events to happen. any help would be great.

In short, the statement is saying that everything is the result of one person.
And this person cannot blame other elements or people for whatever they have done.
So, for example, if you get mad and do something you regret, you can't blame someone else for "making you mad".

Really, it is a spin-off of taking responsibility for our own actions.

-Andreea

"The law of causality is the law of identity applied to action. All actions are caused by entities. The nature of an action is caused and determined by the nature of the entities that act; a thing cannot act in contradiction to its nature …" Galt's Speech, For the New Intellectual, 151
"Since things are what they are, since everything that exists possesses a specific identity, nothing in reality can occur causelessly or by chance." Leonard Peikoff "The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy,"
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 147

To use the terms of Aristotle, what ever is caused, is caused by that which has the identity to cause the effect. That thing which does not have the predicative ability to cause a given effect cannot be the cause; but the effect must be caused by something that does, indeed, have the identity.
Man is indeed a causative agent; but he is not the cause of that which requires a different agent.

If you want to know more about that "unmoved mover," click the link.