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This 3 page paper examines ideas from Descartes and St. Anselm. Various proofs for God's existence are discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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sometimes called the cosmological argument. It assumes that human beings believe that God exists because God caused that to happen. Indeed, it is an idea that makes sense. If God
is really is in charge, and human beings have an ideation of Him, then it is logical to assume that he exists because he put that in the mind of
the human being. In other words, man is not capable of thinking up God. Similarly, one might compare this idea to the reason why people say there are flying saucers.
It seems to be something of a mass hallucination. But then others say that not all of the stories would be so similar if flying saucers did not exist. Therefore,
they exist. On a different level, God exists because everyone has a conception of him. Another argument given in this third meditation goes more to design and the fact that
someone had to create man. Logic has it that there is a supreme being. From there, the definition of God emerges. The argument found in the third meditation fits the
strategy of the text where Descartes expounds on a variety of meditations. Descartes wrote in Synopsis to the Meditations that the purpose of the meditations is not to prove what
they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and independent of the what emerges from sensory organs (Honderich, 1995). Hence, Descartes searches for
a way to classify things and express them and is not really looking for answers related to existence or transcendence. Descartes needs this third meditation because it logically
fits after the first one where he doubts his own existence and then decides that he does exist. Then, in the second meditation, he moves on to the ultimate skeptical
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