Tuesday, February 12, 2008
meditations part five
Descartes just can't get off the subject of god. In his fifth meditation, he argues that, much like a mountain cannot exist without a valley, man cannot exist without god. He goes on to say that, much like it is impossible to visualize a triangle with two right angles, it is impossible to visualize the absence of god. I honestly feel like he makes a weak argument in this chapter. I don't think that it's possible to use logic in order to determine the existence of god. You can construe convincing arguments for both sides, but in the end, there really is no way to ever truly find the answer. The existence of god can never be demonstrated, but it can also never be completely refuted either.
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I agree with you. I think that Descartes tries way too hard to prove God's existence logically and to me, most of his arguments go in circles. It seems like he doesnt really know what he is trying to say lol
Yea, every time he came up with a conclusion that said, 'God must exist' or was based on that same statement, it felt like it was forced and out of place rather than attempting to figure out another possible cause/reason for his thoughts.
I think this argument is completly off the wall and i feel he tries hard to get it to work it just doesn't seem to go where he wanted. Though i do think you could prove god logically it would just be a rediculos logic problem to do so.
my biggest problem with descartes' proof for the existence of God is his attributes of God. he proves that something great exists, and something perfect, and some creator, but it seems that you could just interchange the word God for the word universe, and Descartes' proof would not change
lol sandy, but i think that, although you could say that, you could also replace all God with all other existent realities and you would get the same result.
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