Descartes Fourth Meditation Analysis

After claiming his certainty of God’s existence in his previous meditations, Descartes utilizes this basis to further assert humanity’s connection to Him in his writing “Fourth Meditations.” Descartes argues further on the idea of the existence of humans relying upon God’s existence and how an all powerful being like God could be able to create humans that are prone to making mistakes. He suggests that error is not dependent on God, but rather, a deficiency in humans based on his claims of God being a perfect being, the concept of knowledge being all-powerful, and how the misuse of it would lead to error.
Descartes is certain that God is real, for he is seen in his eyes as an “immense, incomprehensible, and infinite” being that is incapable of mistakes (Descartes, 111). God has the ability to create human life, and give humans various faculties that would allow them to thrive, even if they are not infinite being. However, even …show more content…
As stated before by Descartes, God is argued to exist because humans exist, and that God is an all-powerful being incapable of deception, and have given life and faculties to his creations to utilize and prevent error. However, error still exist, and therefore creates the question upon God and his infinite powers. If God, as an all-powerful being and only capable of good deeds, allows for the presence of error to occur in our world, is God truly a good being? An all-powerful being like God should be able to wipe out the essence of error if it is able to make such faculties like free will and humanity. By making this claim, it asserts the conclusion that God is not seen as an all-powerful being because it allowed such a deceptive essence like error to occur. Because God is no longer an infinite powerful being, then the existence of God is gone, as according to Descartes, God can only exist as a supreme