In order to pass a judgment on which philosophical model’s idea of God makes more sense, it is important to understand each of the philosopher’s visions individually. Therefore, for the sake of this essay, I will start off with discussing Hegel’s philosophy of God and history. In his mind, God changes …show more content…
Hegel believed that history is a process by which God increases his knowledge and defines himself, until he finally reaches the state of absolute knowledge, that is, the realization that he is God. Similarly, Hegel believes that the history of us human beings and our society as a whole is just the history of God himself. Descartes heavily focused on the Cogito Ergo Sum. He based the premises of the existence of a divine being off of the fact that we are thinking things with an idea of perfection, which has to come from a perfect being, God. All in all, to my way of thinking, Descartes’ ideas of God make more sense because he acknowledges that God is almost