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Descartes

Descartes makes it obvious in the very beginning of his third mediation on page 503 that what he knows is clearly true. Though he has doubted other things before, this time he is certain. Certainty comes from senses, reason and faith. Descartes states that if he is not certain about God, then he can not be certain about anything else (pg 504). He says that ideas of God are treated the same as any other term and is not necessarily true or false. It is strictly an image. Even if the image is non-existent, it does not make it any less desirable or less true.

Can one really prove there is God? Proving something or someone does not exist is harder than proving something does exist. It becomes easier to say that there is a God, than to say that there isn’t. For example, not seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling or tasting something, does not mean that it can not be seen, felt, heard, smelt, or tasted. Just because you haven’t ever seen a million dollars, does not mean there is no such thing as a million dollars. The same can apply for God. He is believed to have taught us, yet do we really have proof.

Some of Descartes ideas are innate. Innate ideas are ideas you were born knowing. They are ideas you don’t have to d


Problems can also be found in the Teleological argument. The first argument says human things are products of human minds (proven true by Descartes) An example of this would be houses and cars. Houses and cars are created in peoples mind. Then people physically build and make houses and cars. The second argument is that the universe looks like/ acts like some human product (also proven by Descartes). An example of this would be people driving the cars in which they mentally and physically created. The third argument says the universe is a product of the human like mind. (Descartes proves this true as well) Everything within the universe is thought of in some substance. In argument four the universe is said to be infinitely more complex than human product (Descartes would agree with this statement).The universe is built up of a combination of human products and is more complex then one single human product. Argument five says the human –like mind is infinitely more complex (false statement). This is the most the argument can prove, because God is not more complex than the human mind. God is originated and created by the human mind (Descartes mind). Therefore proving a perfect God would be false (which would eliminate all that Descartes is trying to prove). A rational God creates a rational world. We have a rational world, so we have to have a rational God. Though this argument might be true, it is co

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