Why does anything exist at all? Why not nothing? Like NOTHING nothing. Not even God. Not even that physicist babble psuedo-nothing muh quantum foam or whatever the fuck. It's mind boggling that anything exists, let alone all this complexity, as well as a consciousness of it. I feel like nothing should exist, although I can't really justify that sentiment. It just seems more reasonable in the same sense that if someone makes a positive claim the burden of proof is on them. Similarly, for the world to exist there better be a damn good reason, and I can't really see any. Anyway, I've heard that Heidegger posed this question as well and considered it important, but I haven't read him.
Why does anything exist?
>It's mind boggling that anything exists
I get this feeling a lot.
I can't really weigh in because I'm not knowledgeable with philosophy, I just wanted to say I agree.
but nothing exists outside of the mind
I'd say that it's possible nothing could have existed, but that this was not the case, so it's not worth worrying about.
There's a heck of a lot we don't know.
because nothing is a concept that requires something to have meaning. Why is there a system that allows for things like something/nothing is what you should be asking.
That does not even begin to resolve the issue. The existence of mind is itself problematic.
But I worry, user. I worry a lot.
It hurts my brain and I need to know.
heidegger displaces the question of "why" does Being exist and replaces it with a question of "how." "why" (origin, arche, hence also telos) is still metaphysical, and can't survive that discourse's destruction.
I think the question is perfectly comprehensible. We don't need to split hairs in get in to linguistics. Why is there something rather than nothing in actual fact? I don't care for socio-anthropo-psycho-linguistic examinations in to the historical usages of these terms as much as I am interested in the actual problem.
Does he ever answer the "how" question?