Paper Proposal I
1. Thesis:
Descartes seems to jump to his conclusion of the existence of God without much reasoning listed. I will argue that what he has written in his Discourse on Methods and Meditations is not a good enough argument to prove God's existence decisively.
2. Argument:
Descartes has five arguments for the existence of God:
1. All we can know about finite substances is they are spatially extended.
2. The mind can produce items about finite substances because it has an idea of itself as a finite substance.
3. As a finite substance, the mind could not produce the idea of an infinite substance.
4. Therefore, the idea of an infinite substance must be implanted by a God.
Descartes argument is basically: I could not have the idea of God, if a God did not exist to implant the knowledge of an infinite object into my mind. I want to argue for a number of points brought up by Tweyman, but my main argument will be that a finite can have an understanding of......
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