Descartes

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A review of Descartes' belief that God does indeed exist. The paper explains that Descartes believes that the idea of God can exist because a real God does exist, and he is the cause of the idea. People believe in a God because God created people to believe such. The paper shows how Descartes used math, as well as general ideas and philosophy to prove the existence of God.

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"Ideas can be made up or caused by man except for the idea of God. It is this thought that pushes Descartes to prove his theory on God. According to Lavine, Descartes believed that God is an existent substance possessing all positive qualities in their most eminent degree, that is, in the fullest degree of reality, in their perfect form. And Descartes, God is is infinite perfect being? (104). "by the word of "God" I understand a substance I think is finite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else" (Descartes 31). Descartes believes that this idea of God can exist because a real God does exist, and he is the cause of the idea. His argument is that God's existence is the only thing possible to create the idea."

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