Rene Descartes And God's Existence

Rene Descartes and God’s Existence
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and a scientist in the seventeenth century. As a man of science, Descartes wanted to make discoveries in science as factual as mathematics. With Descartes’s faith, he did not eliminate God from philosophy. Descartes, “The Father of Modern Philosophy”, was a Catholic who wrote the Meditations on First Philosophy. “The Meditations is characterized by Descartes’s use of methodic doubt, a systematic procedure of rejecting as though false all types of belief in which one has been, or could ever be, deceived.” In Meditations, Descartes presented the cosmological argument and the ontological argument to prove God’s existence. Descartes also provided reasons how humans like us make mistakes. …show more content…
In Meditations III, Descartes presented the cosmological argument to prove God’s existence. “Cosmological argument is the argument that the existence of the world or universe is strong evidence for the existence of a God who created it.” Descartes’s scheme of people, angels, animals and other things that can be seen, felt, perceive are all can be disputed, but the idea of God seem to be different. In Descartes’s arguments, if he did not have the idea of infinity how can he make the idea that he is flawed and finite? “The idea cannot have originated out of nothing, because unlike for instance the idea of heat and cold is very clear and distinct. “ Descartes cannot understand this idea; therefore in any true sense it has to be present to be able to act as true comparison. Descartes view himself as a very intelligent man, but to him no matter how his talents, skills and intelligence grows, they only get greater but not endless or infinite. In Meditation III Descartes questioned the origin of his existence. Is he himself designed and made his own self? Descartes argued if he was his own maker, he