5049374 Word Count: 1,026 To begin the proof of Gods existence in meditation III Descartes briefly discusses what he is certain about and what it is that he is still left doubting. The only thing that he is certain about is “I exist as a thinking thing” ( I being Descartes) and that he is left with doubt with concern to his senses— henceforth he is left with doubt of the nature of God, being a deceiver or not, since God could be the cause of deception. Thus, he must dig deeper into Gods being to be able to determine anything else that he can hold certain as truth. Before determining whether or not God is a deceiver or not, Descartes groups his thoughts so that the truth or falsity of the thoughts can be determined categorically. First, he has ideas, which are “images” of things such as man, sky or god (pp.48). This group can not be found to be true or false in their being unless they are being refereed to something else. Then, that is where another group of thought comes about. Judgments, thoughts that …show more content…
He continues to state that he ( or some faculty with in him) is the cause of all his ideas of corporeal substances and of his ideas of other man. But, he also has the idea of a perfect God ( a substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, and supremely powerful, and that created me along with everything else that exist— if anything else exists (pp.51)) and this idea in and of itself contains infinitely more objective reality than any idea of a finite substance. Here a problem occurs, he is finite, thus the idea could not have originated in him of an infinite substance. This is where he draws the conclusion that God must exist, and has always existed, as the cause of the infinite objective reality found within his idea of such a supreme being,