Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Transcendental Nature of the Universe
The pieces of the universe have no internal action to them. They can be arranged, and they have rules of necessity for how they can be arranged. You can only put a trial together in so many ways. There's constraints there, but they don't have any internal action. Will they do tend to gravitate to certain parts of the universe and therefore brush up against each other? So this is one of the things that I had read in the Stanford Encyclopedia article that was the difference between Plato and Aristotle.
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