Who Is Rene Descartes Deceive The Existence Of God?

Rene Descartes was one of the famous mathematicians and philosophers. Descartes was considered the “father of modern philosophy.” (1) He was born in France in the sixteenth century. He got his education in France. Besides his many accomplishments in mathematics, he discovered “analytic geometry” (2) with a contribution from Galileo. In philosophy, he used suspicion and reason to find the truths. He used this technique to make philosophy as strong as the mathematics. His technique made him never accept any ideas that he thought it is uncertain. His process led him to think about himself, his sense, his body, and his mind. Therefore, this suspicions made him to doubt about the existence of the God, who acts in Descartes technique as a warrantor …show more content…
He is trying to connect his proofs of a God’s existence with human errors, and how his proofs led him to clarify the human errors. In his two proofs, Descartes knows that the God cannot deceive him because he is a perfect being while deception is compatible with imperfect being. Also, Descartes mentions at the beginning of his meditation it is impossible that the God would deceive him. He admits, “I acknowledge that it is impossible for the God ever to deceive me, for trickery or deception is always indicative of some imperfection”(5). Descartes states in the first proof, he was imperfect being. Therefore, he makes errors. Descartes says he would not blame the God for these errors because the God is not responsible for it. Descartes explains why human being make mistakes as he says “I note that these errors depend on the simultaneous concurrence of two causes: the faculty of knowing that is for me and the faculty of choosing, that is, the free choice of the will, in other words, simultaneous on the intellect and will.”(6) He clarifies the intellect as the faculty of knowing which is limited in the way of thinking and understanding, and the will as the faculty of choosing which is unlimited and powerful as he gained it from the God. His will allows him to accept or deny ideas. Descartes believes as long as he receives the will from the God, so it is not responsible for his errors; However, the will is unlimited, it may allow the person to agree on the incorrect thoughts. The will don’t allow the person to understand while intellect does. This big difference between the intellect and the will can cause the human mistakes. These differences allow the human to make an incorrect judge on the matters that they do not know its origin. It seems to them it is true while it is false because the will and intellect are incompatible with each