{"product_id":"after-nothing-don-howard-9798994251645","title":"After Nothing: A Transcendental Inquiry into the Ground of Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy is there something rather than nothing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost answers to this question either speculate about what lies beyond experience or retreat into silence. After Nothingdoes neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning from what is simply here - a world that is structured, conscious, normative, and free - Don Howard reasons backward by strict transcendental argument to what the ground of reality must be like in order for such a world to exist. Not what it might be. Not what we might prefer it to be. What it must be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a set of derived constraints on the ground of reality - precise, cumulative, and progressively tightened across fifteen chapters. These constraints are tested against the features of experience that resist easy explanation: consciousness, freedom, evil, suffering, love, and death. Each test sharpens the account and requires that it hold under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is not a familiar conclusion. The categories we have inherited - from science, theology, and philosophy - prove insufficient to what the argument establishes. The deepest reason may not lie in a failure of thought, but in a structural limit of finite description itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Nothing is a work of serious philosophical argument. The opening chapters are demanding; what follows, while still rigorous, becomes more accessible as the argument unfolds. Readers who follow the full trajectory will arrive not at a final answer, but at something more precisely located: a carefully earned account of what reality must allow - and the point at which explanation reaches its limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond volume in The Origins of Existence Trilogy. It can be read independently, though the full arc is cumulative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994251645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vibrant Ages LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Don Howard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50593511997695,"sku":"9798994251645","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-nothing-don-howard-9798994251645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}