Meditation III: Of God
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation III: Of God, That He Exists (1641)
René Descartes
Turns inward to find the one idea too large to have made for itself.
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- 52 / 255
- Base research
- 210
- Stat total
- 298
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Having secured his own existence in Meditation II, Descartes goes looking through his own mind for what else is certainly there — and finds, among his ideas, one he cannot account for: a perfect, infinite being. A cause must hold at least as much reality as its effect, he argues, and a finite, doubting, imperfect mind could not have manufactured the idea of infinite perfection on its own. Andrew’s own note on the man: real doubts about the rest of the system, and a genuine argument here worth reading on its own terms.
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| 1 | Not From Myself Alone | Natural Theology | Argument | 80 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 34 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |