What’s the difference between nihilism and absurdism? Is there any? Upon an initial reading, both philosophies may sound similar since both have to do with a lack of meaning and purpose in the world. But, there are some considerable and essential differences, which I’ll cover in this short article. First…

A medium commenter recently asked me what the difference was between nihilism and existentialism. So, in this short article, I will explain the difference between the two and give you some background on both. Just to be clear, I’ll be focusing on existential nihilism associated with the philosophy of Fredrick…

Why is there anything at all? What if the answer to the question, is that no answer is needed? That there is a brute fact within existence that explains all of existence and itself needs no explanation?

Why is there something, rather than nothing? In this article, I’ll go over what I think the best response is to what Martin Heidegger called the fundamental question of metaphysics. Before I dive into my answer let’s do a quick analysis of the fundamental question and the categories of all…

Why is there something rather than nothing, or, better put, why is there anything at all? What if the best response to this question is that it’s unanswerable? I’ll explore a variety of unanswerable responses to the question, including analyzing if the question itself makes sense and if it’s meaningful…

Why is there something rather than nothing, or better put, why is there anything at all? Could the answer to one of the most fundamental questions in all of philosophy be that abstract objects actually explain existence? …

“Why is there something rather than nothing?” Or better put, “Why is there anything at all?” This article will focus on the best necessitarian-theistic answers to this fundamental philosophical question. …

Perhaps the biggest question in all of philosophy is ‘why is there anything at all’? What if the answer to this question is just that something necessarily has to exist because a state of ‘nothing at all’ is impossible. This is called a necessitarian response to the fundamental question and…

Perhaps the biggest question in all of philosophy is “why is there something rather than nothing?” or better put as discussed in the first video in this series, “why is there anything at all?” What if the answer is that it’s just more probable that we exist rather than there…