Thursday, March 26, 2020

For centuries, the idea of God has been a part of Essays

For centuries, the idea of God has been a part of man's history. Past and present, there has always been a lot of different types of believers and non believer in god. The people who are believed to have faith in god are in many different religions. On the other hand, there are many different people out there trying to find actual proof that there is god. There are many people trying to seek answers. Even today with all l the technology we have, we still do not have a definite answer to the question "does God exist". Among many philosophers and scholars who have tried to answer this question, I am going to peak on Rene Descartes' theory on Gods existence. In terms of believers and non-believers, Descartes is definitely one of the believers. Though there are so many uncertainties, the existence of all of these uncertainties may explain why God really exists. For the believers, God provides answer to all of their questions except questions regarding God himself. The following are some of the general arguments for the existence of God. Descartes' hypothesis on his theory starts with the idea of a God who is eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, and perfect. In his earlier Meditations, he claims that God may be a deceiver. He later concludes that god cannot be a deceiver because deceit would be an attribute of imperfection. According to Descartes, this idea of a intelligent powerful being, who created everything that exists, can not come from within him who is imperfect. Descartes believes that this perception of God is that he could only actually arise from a perfect being. Thus Descartes concludes the only remaining option to be that this perception was naturally in him. We may wonder why god created humans to be imperfect. This would bean that since he created something imperfect, he is imperfect himself. Yet, Descartes claims that God gave humans no faculty for making mistakes. The reasoning behind these statements made by Descartes is related to free will. Descartes states that the faculty of judgment is not infinite in human beings; human error is not dependent upon God but is rather a mere defect. On the other hand, free will is a freedom to choose to do want you want to do. From these statements it is clear that humans can make mistakes. In the " Meditation Five," Descartes attempts to prove his hypothesis of the existence of God based on the theory of clarity and distinctness of perception. He begins this theory by saying that they're things outside of him that have their own truth. Since he knows these ideas clearly, he claims that they are something and are true. Descartes states that he only claims things to be true that he can clearly perceive. From this concept, he constructs something that can prove him right. He believes that the distinct perception of the existence of god means that anything on this earth is created by god. That is the only logical explination. From this assumption, Descartes comes to the conclusion that God does exist. As long as it is clear and distinct, everything Descartes says is clear and true. In "Meditation Four," he states that "the will extends further than the intellect". He also stated that the faculty of choosing, his will, is finite. Descartes acknowledges the fact that he or anybody on this earth is not perfect. From these things that are being stated be Descrates, I believe that there is a God and one day we will have an explanation.

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