Efforts to explain all existence

Abstract

Must the world’s existence have an explanation? many say not: some on the grounds that absolute nothingness is meaningless, Some because intuitions on this issue conflict, Some because they think experience is unable to guide us here. Disputing the force of such abstract considerations, The paper examines actual efforts to explain all existence. Explanations of a creator’s existence in the manner of the ontological proof, Or by reference to his infinitude, Are failures. But it may be more promising to identify God as the principle that the world has creative ethical requiredness. (alternatively, God-As-A-Person might have such requiredness.)