by Fran o'Rourke in the Kerr book.
"In the Timaeus we encounter for the first time the motif of goodness as the origina nd reason for ceration. The fnudamental tenet, central to the Neoplatonist and Christian traditions, of th ediffusive nature of hte good, provided Aquinas with the ultimate answer to the quesiotn: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" This receiveed its classical formua=lation int eh Timaeus. Tho the quesiton, "Why did the artisan of the universae shape it at all?" Plato replies, "He was good, and what is good has no particle of envy in it; without envy, therefore, he wished all things to be as like himself as possible."
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