On What There Is but Doesn’t Exist

In this essay, I shall examine the question of being and its relationship with the ontological concept of nothing. I first lay down my general approach to the fundamental question, the so-called Grundfrage, analysing the notion of Being understood as a totality free from any determination. Then I argue that this temporally determined non-being is not a nothing, but a being contingently absent, that is a being not realized, but possible, so that this being-absent is something, although coincides with nothing.