Analysis Of Descartes Meditations

Descartes seeks to explain the existence of God in his meditations. The first instance that he is seen trying to explain the existence of God is in his first meditation which is emphasized in the firth mediation. Descartes argues that the there is a source for ideas in the first meditation and in the firth meditation, he seeks to enhance his first meditation by digging deeper. Although he proposes and defines his arguments, many philosophers have argued that
Descartes’ arguments are baseless and they are merely founded on plain suspecting criteria that there is a god in the human beings where he does not provide the relevant explanations
(Gorham 370-372). Descartes further seeks to explain why the human beings are subject to error despite being created …show more content…
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In the third meditation, Descartes comes up with the argument that there is something behind the ideas of human beings him included in this category. He states that there must be some reason humans have the ideas they have and there must be a reason they have the ideas they have. In this case, an idea according to Descartes is sourced from somewhere and there must be someone who places the ideas in the humans. He explains that a god in him makes him have the idea of a god and in that this causes him to do things. Even if he can cause things to happen or cause ideas himself, he explains that this is a manifestation of a certain god him causing him to express all those ideas (Davies 58-59). Descartes explains that there is no natural cause of ideas but a certain god that causes them. In tending to explain the force or the power that God has on human beings, he explains that the way things exists is an idea and they were meant to be so. This therefore means that there was an idea behind their existence and this idea is that god wanted them to be so. The principle of an infinite god is explained in this meditation in that Descartes explains that a god is somewhere and is