He eventually concludes that God does not deceive, in fact, God only wants what is best for us. Descartes realizes that God has put thoughts into his mind thus making him a thinking thing. "Yet each of them, both Pascal and Descartes tried to make the knowledge of God's existence the independent groundwork of the whole of man's knowledge and life"(Keeling 41). This quote says that Descartes and Pascal, although different, both tried to make God's existence the most important thing in philosophy. Descartes says that he will not believe anything in which he cannot prove that it exists in the world which he believes God created. "Anything that emits the slightest bit of doubt I will cast aside, just as if I had found it to be wholly false, and I will proceed in this way until I recognize something certain" (Theories of Human Nature Donald C. Able page 180). This basically states that Descartes has proven that he exists and that God has created him and that the world in which Descartes lives is created by God also. .
Hume would disagree with Descartes, because Hume is an empiricist, or someone who believes sense perception is how we obtain most of our knowledge. Firstly, Hume argues that the mind is not separated from the body because if it were then the body's sense perception would be inconsistent and off key. This would result in the mind disconnecting its focus on what is morally right. "If we consider the principle of the human make such as they appear to daily experience and observation, we must conclude it impossible for such a creature as man to be totally indifferent to the well or ill being of his fellow creatures, and not ready to pronounce what is good and what is evil without father regard or consideration"(Hume 211). Secondly, Hume disagrees over the existence of God because he is an atheist and does not believe in any "higher" being.
