Descartes's Conception of God 
.... The mere fact that
Descartes can conceive of
God as existing also means that he cannot conceive of
God as not existing, for
God would then not be a perfect ....
(562
2
)
Descartes Argument on God's Existence
.... It could be objected that the fact that
Descartes can think of
God as existing does not mean that
God exists, for
Descartes cannot impose necessity on things. ....
(1482
6
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Descartes' Use of Aquinas in The Meditations Re
.... Of these arguments, it was the idea of a supremely perfect being that most directly convinced
Descartes (156)
God did exist - as a first cause and a prime ....
(719
3
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Descartes' Fifth Meditation
.... The mere fact that
Descartes can conceive of
God as existing also means that he cannot conceive of
God as not existing, for
God would then not be a perfect ....
(562
2
)
Descartes Meditations
.... In its most simplistic form,
Descartes proof of
God follows the following line of reasoning: I think of a concept of
God as the perfect being There is an equal ....
(1201
5
)
PHILOSOPHIES OF DESCARTES AND AUGUSTINE
.... Not really.
Descartes places
God as the only truth. Anything else is doubtful. ....
Descartes sees
God as truth, but not as thought. ....
(1044
4
)
Descartes' Meditations
.... himself as less than perfect. For this,
Descartes' idea of
God is, he claims, his most "clear and distinct" idea (Cress, 1998, p. 77). ....
(1521
6
)
Descartes' Philosophy
.... The principle of contradiction, of course, applies equally to
Descartes' attempted proof of
God's existence. Thus, we have explored ....
(957
4
)
Natural Law, God, Human Nature
....
Descartes's argument for
God's existence complements Lewis's argument about the centrality of
God and the role of man's mind in perceiving that importance. ....
(1743
7
)
Rene Descartes
.... Its appeal must also be limited for those who do not believe in the same kind of perfect
God that
Descartes found at the center of his universe. ....
(1786
7
)
Rene Descartes: An interpretation
.... Its appeal must also be limited for those who do not believe in the same kind of perfect
God that
Descartes found at the center of his universe. ....
(1226
5
)
Hume, Hegel and Descartes on Knowledge In
.... By offering this skeptical example,
Descartes maintains that if
God deceived man in such a manner, man would never be able to discover the truth. ....
(2051
8
)
Descartes' Treatment of Innate Ideas
.... If
God does not generate a deception of this type,
Descartes argues, yet
God allows self-deception or at any rate limited certainty of abstract/simple truth. ....
(3328
13
)
Problem of Knowledge & Descartes
.... his judgment.
Descartes says that he will doubt all things, and in this he includes even the idea of the perfect
God. Instead, he ....
(1639
7
)
God
.... perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of
God?" (
Descartes 1). Yet ....
(3610
14
)
Descartes' Meditations
.... In other words,
Descartes defers the question of
God's role in permitting or orchestrating deception to explore the limits of human reason intrinsically. ....
(3237
13
)
Plato & Descartes & the Senses
.... Human beings are not
God, but Plato and
Descartes are trying to establish some philosophical process whereby they can become
God, or at least become
God-like. ....
(1666
7
)
The Notion of Rationalism
.... According to
Descartes, if there were no
God, no perfect being, then he would not be able to conceive of himself as less than perfect. ....
(1042
4
)
Skepticism I. INTRODUCTION 1. Objective of essa
.... Yet, this raises a question concerning the existence of
God: How did
Descartes know that
God exists?
Descartes knows that he is ....
(2097
8
)
Meditations on First Philosophy.
.... 27). Thoughts of such a
God can only come from
God,
Descartes concludes, and not from his own imperfect, finite and mortal mind. He ....
(2016
8
)
Rene Descartes
.... is the belief that the soul survives the body at death, an idea accepted by
Descartes and related to his view that the universe is an idea in
God's mind and so ....
(1715
7
)
Cartesian Dualism
.... The one connection possible in the rational mind is with
God, and
Descartes demonstrates that
God exists and that He does not deceive. ....
(1744
7
)
Philosophical Concept of Knowledge
.... The mere fact that
Descartes can conceive of
God as existing also means that he cannot conceive of
God as not existing, for
God would then not be a perfect ....
(2649
11
)
Descartes' Sixth Meditation Perspective
.... entirely.
God, he says, is not a deceiver (
Descartes 22). He does not explain in the Sixth Meditation why we should presume this. ....
(495
2
)
The Problem of Knowledge
.... The one connection possible in the rational mind is with
God, and
Descartes demonstrates that
God exists and that He does not deceive. ....
(1591
6
)
The philosophy of mind
.... The conceivability argument relates to the proof of the existence of
God and to the idea
Descartes has of
God as a perfect being. ....
(1763
7
)
Descartes & Sense Perceptions Perspective
.... entirely.
God, he says, is not a deceiver (
Descartes 22). He does not explain in the Sixth Meditation why we should presume this. ....
(487
2
)
Several Philosophical Theories
.... The one connection possible in the rational mind is with
God, and
Descartes demonstrates that
God exists and that He does not deceive. ....
(1579
6
)
A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE
.... the theory still stands: that knowledge of someone's actions or desires may have some sort of un-personal (that is, as
Descartes might say)
God-given or ....
(1579
6
)
George Berkeley
.... pina colada scent. For
Descartes, a tree falling in a forest makes a sound because
God is always there to hear it. But by the time ....
(1298
5
)
