In this essay, I aim to study the third Meditation where Descartes attempts to prove the existence of God through extensive analysis with regards to objective and formal reality and how the role of God effects his existence. I intend to argue why Descartes finds it important to prove the existence of a good God, as well as the meaning behind objective and formal reality, what role it takes in the proof that God exists and how it is the cause of his existence, the validity of his theories, and why they are false when considering other possibilities for God’s existence and the truth behind our ideas.
