Got a B+, but the teacher was a very yough grader. Paper on Descartes.
Date Submitted: 09/15/2004 13:11:43
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1146 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1146 words)
The question of whether God exists is an issue that has been debated by scholars, scientists, and philosophers for centuries. In his Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes ultimately attempts to prove God in fact does exist. By dismissing everything he has learned from the beginning of his life and rebuilding his belief structure through science and reason, Descartes is able to build groundwork to base his own arguments upon and …
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…science and reason, but rather the wondrous deeds, which they believe He has performed. Observing the time in which Descartes' Meditations were published, his suggestion that God may be an evil deceiver, and his use of science and reason to prove God's existence, shows that Rene Descartes most likely did not believe in God.
Work Cited
Descartes, Rene. Discourse On Method and Meditations on First Philosophy;
Translated by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co. 1993.
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