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Descartes Metaphysics: Role of God

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Role of God

  • According to Descartes, there is one clear and distinct innate idea present in all of us, that is the innate idea go God. Descartes avers, there is one innate idea of a being who is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, source of all goodness and truth, creator of all things.
  • In short, it has in itself all the things which are taint…

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Descartes Metaphysics: Proofs for the Existence of God

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Proofs for the Existence of God

Descartes gives three proofs for the existence of God. They are;

The Causal Proof

The causal proof in-order to explain the existence go God is based on two main assumptions.

  • individual consciousness or the mind knows itself to be finite in nature,
  • This conception of God is derived only from the conception of an absolutely perfect being, God.

The Cosmological Proof

Descartes avers that what can be the cause of myself, my parents and all the other finite, limited beings? This he concludes, can be proved only with the help of the idea of a perfect, infinite being who h…

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