Throughout many years, the existence of God has always been a topic of discussion and through the years, many people have tried to come up with myths, stories and facts about if God exists or not. Many philosophers including Rene Descartes is looking to find certainty an proof of God’s existence and through his arguments, he will base all of his theories and principles on this theory. The existence of God has been argued about in history for years and years and confused many people. For myself, I never thought about the background knowledge of his existence or ever questioned why he exists or why he doesn’t. It was until I took this class that made me think about it more. My view on the existence of God is I do truly believe he does exist.
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The First Meditation starts us off with plenty of doubts Descartes made, for example, his senses and dreaming. He doubts his senses because the experiences that take place, he doesn’t know if they are true or not and they deceive us therefore we can’t accurately believe if things are real or not. His dreams are doubted because we can’t come to the understanding that what we are dreaming is actually happening in the real world. Understanding that he is a thinking thing and he exists, Descartes will move forward and try to prove the existence of God through …show more content…
(22). Secondly, “ I am certain that the same reality was not in me, either formally or eminently, and that therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the world, but that something else, which is the cause of this idea, also exists.” (23). Thirdly, “ I must consider whether there is anything in this idea that could not have originated from me. I understand by the name “God” a certain substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent and supremely powerful, and that created me along with everything else that exists. Indeed all these are such that, the more carefully I focus my attention on them, the less possible it seems they could have arisen from myself alone. Thus, from what has been said, I must conclude that god necessarily exists.” (25). Descartes says that these proofs all lead him to believe that God ultimately exists for the following reasons, something cannot come out of something else that is less perfect, therefore it needs to come from something that
The First Meditation starts us off with plenty of doubts Descartes made, for example, his senses and dreaming. He doubts his senses because the experiences that take place, he doesn’t know if they are true or not and they deceive us therefore we can’t accurately believe if things are real or not. His dreams are doubted because we can’t come to the understanding that what we are dreaming is actually happening in the real world. Understanding that he is a thinking thing and he exists, Descartes will move forward and try to prove the existence of God through …show more content…
(22). Secondly, “ I am certain that the same reality was not in me, either formally or eminently, and that therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the world, but that something else, which is the cause of this idea, also exists.” (23). Thirdly, “ I must consider whether there is anything in this idea that could not have originated from me. I understand by the name “God” a certain substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent and supremely powerful, and that created me along with everything else that exists. Indeed all these are such that, the more carefully I focus my attention on them, the less possible it seems they could have arisen from myself alone. Thus, from what has been said, I must conclude that god necessarily exists.” (25). Descartes says that these proofs all lead him to believe that God ultimately exists for the following reasons, something cannot come out of something else that is less perfect, therefore it needs to come from something that