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A 5 page research paper that discusses the argument for the existence of God presented in Renes Descartes in his third mediation from his work Meditations on First Philosophy. The writer also discusses the differences between ontological and cosmological arguments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Descartes used the parameters for knowledge that he established in the first two meditations to present his principal argument for the existence of God. Descartes begins Meditation III by
restating and affirming the conclusions of Meditations I and II, where in he defined himself as "...a thing that thinks" (Descartes, 2002). As this suggests, Descartes concludes, in defining
himself, that he is a thinking being who is capable doubt and affirmation, denial and knowledge. He is certain that he thinks and this is the philosophical foundation upon which
he builds his conception of reality. However, before, he can reasonably obtain a clear picture of reality, he feels that he has to address whether or not there is a
God, a divine Creator. Not surprisingly, Descartes goes about his proof by analyzing the nature of human thought, which he has already shown will be the bedrock of his epistemological
position. Descartes begins by pointing out that an idea can be an image, a form, or a judgement. While Descartes feels that what individuals perceive as form can never
be false, judgements that they make about such forms may or may not coincide with reality. Therefore, the source of error lies in human judgement and not with a specific
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind involuntarily from an outside source. Innate ideas arise
spontaneously, in a manner similar to a force of nature. Blind impulse compels the individual to accept that the idea of the object corresponds to the reality of the object.
Therefore, Descartes maintained that this meant that he could not rationally prove that ideas existed outside of his own mind predicated on this basis. The point that Descartes is
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