Descartes Arguments For The Existence Of God
There have been many arguments and philosophical beliefs of the existence of god. For many centuries, there have been many attempts by many philosophers to prove the existence of God. Many philosophers’ arguments for the existence of God come in many different evidence like using science, personal experience, history and philosophy. Looking at the philosopher's point of view, I have come across two arguments that explain the existence of god which is the cosmological and ontological argument. As of today, even with all the development of sciences, we still do not have a clear answer if god exists or not but from my personal belief, he exists. He exists because how the idea of god could be created in our minds and that the event of something
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He starts with the idea of a God who is eternal, infinite, and perfect. In the beginning of Meditations on First Philosophy, He explains that “we must believe that there is a God, because we are so taught in the Holy Scriptures, and, on the other hand, that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God “(Descartes 1). He then doubts himself if god does really exist. Through examining his thoughts, he ends up believing that the idea of God exists because of his innate idea of God which has to be God who “is the cause of this idea”(Descartes 25). Descartes then explains more in depth saying, “I have no choice but to conclude that the mere fact of my existing is and of there being in me an idea of a most perfect being, that is God, demonstrates most evidently that God too exists” (34). Another reason is how in his further mediations, he explains how if God does not exist, then he is not a supremely perfect being. Saying that God does not exist, we can imagine a being that is more perfect than God. But this is a contradiction because since the idea of God is the idea of the most perfect being of all. Therefore, God must exist because you cannot image a more perfect being than god, who he is the almighty and perfect of …show more content…
The problem of evil is that if God exists then he should know to prevent all evil doings. If this God existed then we would want him to prevent all of the evil doing in the world. War, rape, and murder are examples that have not been prevented and still are ongoing today. The argument claims then that there is no such God. I think the problem of evil exists because it exists for a certain kind of good meaning every bad thing will eventually lead to something good. There are certain things that need the opposite of one self in order to be true. For example, in order to become brave, you need to show that you are brave. You must be fearless of doing dangerous things in order to be brave. God created us to depend on each other so that we can become a loving
He starts with the idea of a God who is eternal, infinite, and perfect. In the beginning of Meditations on First Philosophy, He explains that “we must believe that there is a God, because we are so taught in the Holy Scriptures, and, on the other hand, that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God “(Descartes 1). He then doubts himself if god does really exist. Through examining his thoughts, he ends up believing that the idea of God exists because of his innate idea of God which has to be God who “is the cause of this idea”(Descartes 25). Descartes then explains more in depth saying, “I have no choice but to conclude that the mere fact of my existing is and of there being in me an idea of a most perfect being, that is God, demonstrates most evidently that God too exists” (34). Another reason is how in his further mediations, he explains how if God does not exist, then he is not a supremely perfect being. Saying that God does not exist, we can imagine a being that is more perfect than God. But this is a contradiction because since the idea of God is the idea of the most perfect being of all. Therefore, God must exist because you cannot image a more perfect being than god, who he is the almighty and perfect of …show more content…
The problem of evil is that if God exists then he should know to prevent all evil doings. If this God existed then we would want him to prevent all of the evil doing in the world. War, rape, and murder are examples that have not been prevented and still are ongoing today. The argument claims then that there is no such God. I think the problem of evil exists because it exists for a certain kind of good meaning every bad thing will eventually lead to something good. There are certain things that need the opposite of one self in order to be true. For example, in order to become brave, you need to show that you are brave. You must be fearless of doing dangerous things in order to be brave. God created us to depend on each other so that we can become a loving