flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Why is there anything at all?

en.wikipedia.org · 4,229 words · saved by 1 readers

"Why is there anything at all?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics".

Why is there anything at all? - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Metaphysical question This question has been written about by philosophers since at least the ancient Parmenides ( c. 515 BC ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] " Why is there anything at all? " or " Why is there something rather than nothing? " is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists , including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , [ 3 ] Ludwig Wittgenstein , [ 4 ] and Martin Heidegger , [ 5 ] who called it "the fundamental question of me

Explore this link on the map →

related reading