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    It is not the case that Nothing and non-being are not good.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Heidegger argues that 'the Nothing' is not mere absence but the ground of Being itself, disclosed in anxiety as ontologically fundamental.
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    • 2.If goodness tracks ontological fundamentality rather than mere positive existence, then Nothing may be as good as—or prior to—any determinate being.
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    • 3.The Augustinian equation of being with goodness presupposes a substance-ontology that post-Heideggerian metaphysics has given substantive reasons to reject.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.In Daoist philosophy (Laozi, Tao Te Ching), non-being (wu) is the generative source from which all things arise and is therefore primordially good.
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    • 2.If non-being produces being, and being is good, then non-being possesses a productive goodness that precedes and conditions all finite goods.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Every being is a good thing and every good thing is a being.
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    • 2.Nothing and non-being are not being.
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