God's Existence Questioned: The Pursuit to Knowledge
God generally refers to one supreme, holy, personal being; the divine unity of ultimate goodness and of ultimate reality. Throughout history, God's existence has been questioned by many. The existence of God led to the pursuit of knowledge for many philosophers, including Rene Descartes. In Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes logically proves the existence of an infinite and truthful being. As a result, he states two arguments which ultimately vindicate God's existence: 1. God exists from the fact that I have an idea of Him and 2. Ontological argument (of or relating to essence or the nature of being). However, it is with the idea that one has of an immutable being, which leads to God's existence that evidently possesses the stronger argument.
Descartes uses his first and second meditation, in the Cogito (awareness of myself, thinking, and of existence) as a model for achieving human knowledge.......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 745
Approximate Pages: 3 (260 words per double-spaced page) |