Decartes and God
... One such topic, which is arguably the greatest topic of debate occurring in modern day, is the existence of God. Sure, many people believe in some sort of higher being, but how many of them try and use logic and rational thought to prove the existence of God. ... Rene Descartes attempts to use his own logic to come up with the conclusion that a perfect being does exist and that being is in itself God in his book Meditations on First Philosophy. ... We must also look at the various problems with Descartes’ logic behind the existence of God to determine whether or not it is a workable and valid argument. ... Thus his existence is that of an innate nature, however, Descartes also uses the idea of God as an innate idea as well. ... Descartes begins his argument, of the existence of God, with the only thing he knows to be true; that through doubting, he must exist. ... And by having that idea, because he is finite and cannot come up with such an idea himself, a perfect being must exist- God. ... Descartes views God as an innate idea, as is that of his own existence. The problem with thinking that God is an innate idea is that it does not include the ideas which others have of God. One would assume that if God were an innate idea, one that was planted in the mind, then all ideas of God would be the same.