Discussion on Descartes meditations
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- Introduction
- Problem to Descartes' argument
- Mackie's notions of God
- Philo's three propositions
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
descartes comes to the conclusion "that the mere fact that I [descartes] exist and have within me an idea of a most perfect being, that is, God, provides a very clear proof that God exists" (descartes 51). He comes to this conclusion through a series of steps. First, descartes believes that as a thinking thing, he does not possess the ability to bring about himself, which means something else brought him about. He disproves the notion that he was brought about by something other than God. He argues that neither his parents nor a less than perfect God brought him about. Since descartes is a thinking thing, "what caused me is itself a thinking thing and possesses the idea of all the perfections which I attribute to God" (descartes 50).
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