Proving our existence has been something philosophers have tried to grasp for quite some time. Rene Descartes sets about proving our existence as well as many others. He first determines that many of his beliefs and opinions are doubtful. He proposes that the quest for knowledge is based entirely too much on unproved presuppositions. He argues that this makes it difficult to distinguish between truth and error, since we cannot recognize true knowledge. Descartes decides that in order to find out the truth, he must disprove the principles that support everything he believes in, using his Method of Doubt.
This Method of Doubt is his way of doubting everything that has even the slightest possibility of not being fact. Descartes establishes that his senses have been wrong, and therefore, he cannot trust them. He believes that when we look at this approach to our existence we must deny that any sensory data that we re
Descartes says that are certain things that are certain without the senses. He believes that there is a God, due to the fact that this idea is “firmly rooted” in his mind. One of the major flaws in Descartes’ argument is that while he is doubting and then rejecting, mostly everything in the world around him, he maintained that he could prove God. He would also go on to prove God, without a shadow of doubt. Many people have tried to prove God’s existence, but have not been successful. He supposes that he could devise a method of proving the existence of God by using St. Anselm who already had problems in his argument. It seems that Descartes had accepted the existence of God way before questioning it or even proving it. He did not make a fair and accurate conclusion as to whether or not God really exists. The fact that he was so willing to accept God’s existence, while being so critical of everything else around him s
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