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This chapter discusses different approaches to the question "Why is there anything at all?" It notes that while this question is often viewed as a modern one, philosophers like Plotinus, Proclus, and Aquinas effectively addressed this same question in arguing for a first principle or cause of all beings. Contemporary discussions either limit the scope of the question or dismiss it as meaningless. The chapter analyzes two ways the question is limited - to contingent beings or concrete objects - and argues th

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