The Origins of Existence Trilogy After Nothing: A Transcendental Inquiry into the Ground of Reality, Book 2, (Hardcover)

<p>Why is there something rather than nothing?</p><p>Most answers to this question either speculate about what lies beyond experience or retreat into silence. After Nothingdoes neither.</p><p>Beginning from what is simply here - a world that is structured, conscious, normative, and free - Don Howard reasons backward by strict transcendental argument to what the ground of reality must be like in order for such a world to exist. Not what it might be. Not what we might prefer it to be. What it must be.</p><p>The result is a set of derived constraints on the ground of reality - precise, cumulative, and progressively tightened across fifteen chapters. These constraints are tested against the features of experience that resist easy explanation: consciousness, freedom, evil, suffering, love, and death. Each test sharpens the account and requires that it hold under pressure.</p><p>What emerges is not a familiar conclusion. The categories we have inherited - from science, theology, and philosophy - prove insufficient to what the argument establishes. The deepest reason may not lie in a failure of thought, but in a structural limit of finite description itself.</p><p>After Nothing is a work of serious philosophical argument. The opening chapters are demanding; what follows, while still rigorous, becomes more accessible as the argument unfolds. Readers who follow the full trajectory will arrive not at a final answer, but at something more precisely located: a carefully earned account of what reality must allow - and the point at which explanation reaches its limit.</p><p>Second volume in The Origins of Existence Trilogy. It can be read independently, though the full arc is cumulative.</p>

• The Origins of Existence Trilogy After Nothing: A Transcendental Inquiry into the Ground of Reality, Book 2, (Hardcover)
• Author: Don Howard
• ISBN: 9798994251652
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-04-15
• Page Count: 264