“Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Tractatus logico–philosophicus, 6.44.

Jim Holt’s recent book, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, tackles the question that Martin Heidegger characterized as the greatest in all philosophy—why is there something rather than nothing? To investigate this question Holt consulted many of the world’s foremost thinkers. Here, in brief, are their answers. Continue reading Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? →