TY - BOOK AU - Wippel,John F. TI - The ultimate why question: Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? SN - 9780813218632 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Ontology KW - Nothing (Philosophy) N1 - 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 ER -