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Descartes Ontological Argument

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Descartes: From the Descartes, Third Meditation, the idea of existence is clear. So Descartes then goes to find the existence of God. The "Causal Adequacy Principle", says that “there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause” This means that something is important for something to be adequate to result in its cause to happen. This also means that nothing will result in nothing and something must come from something. If there is something in the universe then it must come from something. The idea here is there must be the source of the effect that we see in this world. If we see the milk boiling, then there should be the cause for that boiling effect to happen. There should be the source …show more content…

Descartes thought of the idea of God in terms of the perfect being. Descartes support his claims by referring to the essence of the triangle that o claim the inexistence of the god is like a triangle does not possess three sides and the sum of three angles of the triangles does not equal to 180 degrees.
Thomas Hobbes in against of Descartes proof of God's …show more content…

From the bucket with holes example, Hobbes argued that the bucket with no holes is certainly better to carry water from one place to another. Hobbes argues that the premise is not true in case of Descartes explanation of the god's existence. He is questioning on the existence of god that bigger better and greater never come from lesser fewer and smaller. Hobbes believed that to prove god's existence is inconceivable. Though Descartes proved the god's existence is real Hobbes questioned that God's existence is not comprehensible. On the fifth meditation, Hobbes argued to Descartes' claim that God to the real nature of God. The name of thing remains forever while the nature of thing exists as long as it exists. In the same way, Hobbes concluded that we cannot prove the existence of god and that our supposition that god exists is the supreme of all. The ideas are the thoughts of our mind like a man, a camera or god. When we think of anything we know what that is , what its color is what its shape is and finally the image of the whole thing. We know whether it exist in the physical world or not. But when we think of something like God we cannot imagine the shape and size and image of the god, as we are forbidden to worship the image of god. We cannot prove its existence and hence, the existence of god is inconceivable. For example, a blind man approaching fire knows that fire is hot when he comes closer to fire, but

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