Descartes' Proof of God

While all six of Rene Descartes’ ‘Meditations’ contain ideas and concepts that are hard to digest by the average reader at the best of times, perhaps the most difficult-to-swallow is his third meditation on his proof for the existence of God. The first meditation is subtitled ‘What can be called into doubt’, in which he explains his form of scepticism which can doubt the existence of anything presented by the senses which seems to exist outside of the mind itself. In this meditation Descartes begins by mentioning that he had as a child accepted many things as true which later transpired to be false, and suggests that knowledge he now takes for granted could equally be false. He goes on to suppose that a supremely powerful demon could be deceiving him, and that perhaps it would be safer to doubt everything he has taken for granted concerning the world around him, if indeed there is one, and start from scratch. The second meditation, subtitled ‘The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body’, begins with this ‘clean slate’ of scepticism towards anything external to the mind, and concludes that the on

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