An Axiological Ultimate Explanation for Existence

Moghri, Mohsen (2023) An Axiological Ultimate Explanation for Existence. MAGYAR FILOZÓFIAI SZEMLE, 67 (2). pp. 118-138. ISSN 0025-0090

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Abstract

Why is there anything concrete at all, instead of there being nothing concrete? Leibniz (1714/1989) devised this puzzle (hereafter “the Why question”) as a way to uncover what constitutes the nature of our concrete world.1 Leibniz’s own suggestion, after elaborating on the Why question, was that our concrete world is the best possible world and its Goodness is the reason it exists. Following Leibniz, Kuhn (2007) illuminates how an explanation for all concrete existence helps one discover the fundamental feature of our universe, and Holt (2012) adds that only by asking why there is a concrete world can one know why the universe behaves in a certain way. Further, Nozick (1981) intensifies the latter point by maintaining that without an answer to the Why question, one might not be able to answer any other question at all.

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