The ultimate why question : Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / Ed. by John F. Wippel.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Goodness, unity, and creation in the platonic tradition / Lloyd P. Gerson ; The question of being, non-being and "creation ex nihilo" in Chinese philosophy / May Sim ; The ultimate why question : Avicenna on why God is absolutely necessary / Jon McGinnis ; Thomas Aquinas on the ultimate why question : why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? / John F. Wippel ; Causa sui and created truth in Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz ; Being and being grounded / Daniel O. Dahlstrom ; Why is there anything at all rather than absolutely nothing? : F.W.J. Schelling's answer to the ultimate why question / Holger Zaborowski ; The ultimate why question : the Hegelian option / Edward C. Halper ; Some contemporary theories of divine creation / Robert Cummings Neville ; Pragmatic reflections on final causality / Brian Martine ; Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospects of axiological explanation / Nicholas Rescher.