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Descartes' Proof of God
Title: Descartes' Proof of God
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 2990 | Pages: 12.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Descartes' Proof of God
Discuss and analyse the proofs given for the existence of God in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
While all six of Rene Descartes’ ‘Meditations’ contain ideas and concepts that are hard to digest by the average reader at the best of times, perhaps the most difficult-to-swallow is his third meditation on his proof for the existence of God. The first meditation is subtitled ‘What can be called into doubt’, in which he explains his form …showed first 75 words of 2990 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2990 total…Descartes ‘proof’ for the existence of God seems to contain indefensible flaws- that the idea of perfection could be deduced and that even given its existence in the mind, it does not necessarily follow that perfection itself exists as an infinite substance. While his meditations provide a great deal of intelligent, well written food-for-thought concerning scepticism, knowledge God and truth, the only thing that can truly make someone believe in God is faith, not proof.
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