Descartes

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This paper presents a brief overview of Descartes's theories of how man exists and how man's existence proves God's existence. The writer makes reference to "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", by David Hume, in which he seeks to undermine and correct the views that Descartes seems to advance in his proof of God.

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"This critique of the basic understanding that most people have of cause and effect is absolutely a terminal blow in relation to Descartes proof of God, because Descartes entire proof rests upon the assumption that there is a direct link between causes and effects. Indeed, he presume the notions that effects precede from causes and that the causes have the exact same amount of reality as the effects. Once Hume has dealt this death-blow to the entire notion of cause and effect the entire rest of Descartes argument falls to pieces, because cause and effect is the very basic principle upon which all of Descartes subsequent proof is predicated."

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