Descartes_Proof_of_God

Descartes Proof of God Truth is the goal of philosophy. Some philosophers, like David Hume, struggle with eliminating falsity, while others, like Rene Descartes, look for causes to explain effects. A cause and effect argument is called a causal argument. Descartes is interested in logic, one truth progressing to the next. Descartes gives a causal argument for the existence of God in Meditation III. He deals with the effect of the idea of absolute perfection in our minds and rationalizes that the cause is God, therefore proving the existence of God. Descartes believes there are two types of reality: objective and formal.. The degree of reality depends on the degree of independence. The more independent, the higher the degree of reality. For example, consider a car and a dent in the car. You could take the dent away from the car and still have the essence of the car, but you cannot take the car away from the dent and still have the essence of the dent. The dent is dependent upon the car for its existence. Therefore, the car is more formally real because it is more independent. Now consider the is an idea of absolute perfection. This idea is too great for one’s mind to descartes, cause, universe, existence, argument, god, things, thing, must, now, idea, causes, being, car, anything, absolute, therefore, sequence, right, perfection, infinite, exist, event, effect, cosmological, account, since, nothing, itself, dent, causal, world, wise, ultimate, something, reason, prove, one, intelligible, exists, everything, even, cannot, called, truth, time, think, terms, team, reality