Descartes Cogito Ergo Sum: Unshaken Power Of God

Descartes's cogito ergo sum supports the aspect of God existence into the God essence. To support his argument, Descartes argues that the confidence that people have towards the truthfulness of things it is based on the unshaken power of God (Monte 12). In the Ontological argument, Descartes point out that the attribution of existence to all-powerful good God had more weight than a more powerful demon. It is out of this argument whereby Descartes envisaged that the reality is based on the concept of all-powerful good God. Based on the Descartes’s two sides it appears that there is a relationship between the cogito ergo sum and ontological argument. This paper to explore how the premises of ontological position are similar to the cogito ergo sum.
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Similarly, ontological argument defines God as perfect (Monte 16). Through the concept of perfect, cogito ergo sum holds that God exists and for a being to qualify to be called God it should possess all-powerful traits because God means all powerful. The ontological argument uses the claims of cogito ergo sum premises about God essence to put across that God’s definition comprises of the term perfection. To support this, the ontological argument depicts that to label anything else as powerful as God it would be like agreeing to the false claim. Descartes used this argument to support the ontological attribution to God as a perfect being.
Despite that similarity between cogito ergo sum and ontological argument, there are certain distinctions between the two arguments. For example, the ontological argument depicts that God is perfect being as outlined in the cogito ergo sum argument. However, the elaboration of being by the ontological argument goes beyond the cogito ergo sum premise. For example, the ontological argument illustrates God as a perfect being, and because he is perfect there is no something else that can be better than what is