The three symphonies of his first period were conceived on a programmatic basis (i.e., founded on a nonmusical story or idea), the actual programs (later discarded) being concerned with establishing some ultimate ground for existence in a world dominated by pain, death, doubt, and despair.
Although this suggests that the cosmological argument relies on the ontological, Kant also indicates that the effort to produce a purely a priori argument for God's existence (the ontological argument) itself gets momentum from reason's need to find the necessary ground for existence in general, a need expressed in the cosmological argument (cf. A603 04/B631 32).
In almost every way, "Moonlight" demands that we question the grounds for its existence.
The fact of this damage to children is covered up by everybody and Medea doesn't do that, she won't do it, she says: 'These are our children and if you leave me the grounds for their existence are not there any more.' They are cancelled, in a way".
While force, however, thus provides the necessary metaphysical grounds for the existence of genuine motions, it does not, at least as far as the physicist is concerned, solve the empirical issue of which bodies can be ascribed genuine motion (Garber 1995, 307; but see also Lodge 2003).
It could be argued that the recognition of the worth of others is the only necessary grounds for the existence and maintenance of a nursing service in any society.
From this it follows that it is conceivable or logically possible that there exists a causal series that came into existence uncreated or has always existed without any further cause or ground for its existence.
The first is the causal maxim: Whatever exists must have a cause or ground for its existence.
It is in this way that the Phenomenology can change course, the earlier tracking of shapes of individual consciousness and self-consciousness effectively coming to be replaced by the tracking of distinct patterns of mutual recognition between subjects—shapes of spirit that forms the ground for the existence of those individual consciousnesses/self-consciousnesses.
It is evident that the foundations of this argument rest with the related causal principles that everything must have a cause or ground for its existence and that no effect can have any perfection that is not also in its cause.
