Comparing Descartes And Anselm Analysis

There comes a point in people’s lives where this particular question comes to mind; “Why do I exist?” Out of sudden curiosity, they ask themselves as to why they were chosen to exist in the world. Some people spend their entire lives trying to dig deeper into the meaning of their existence and find their own purpose. Two specific Philosophers who go by the names of Rene Descartes and Anselm penetrate into the existence of God. When both men tried to discover the truth of “God’s existence”, they would find themselves in a confounding predicament. Both Descartes and Anselm wanted to assist their readers in finding the truth in our existence by leading them towards the idea that God does in fact exist. Even though both Descartes and Anselm acknowledge
In order for our thoughts to have transparent and evident reason, we need to believe that something outside exists. He suggests that our minds use these analysis of thoughts such as; idea, volitions, emotions, and judgments to develop reason. Furthermore, Descartes categorizes three sources of ideas: innate ideas, adventitious ideas, and other ideas invented by Descartes himself. Innate ideas are what our minds have structured within and what we naturally think, such as: what a pencil is, what honesty is, what a thought of God is. Adventitious ideas are what we experience from the outside world, such as the feeling of coldness, the sound of a piano and the possibility of God. The ideas invented by Descartes revolved around imagination along with innate and adventitious ideas. Descartes feels that the idea of the existence of God is innate within him. Ideas have to be either innate, adventitious and or invented. Considering that the idea of God is not composed within him because he lacks the resources of such a perfect being like God, then He should be
He believes that God truly exists because without him, no one would exist. He essentially thinks that without God’s existence, the world would be nothing. Anselm states through an Ontological Argument that, “If that than which no greater can be thought to exist, then it exists not just in thought but also in reality”. Anselm argued the standard establishment of God and the nature of thought in a manner of four ways: that than which no greater can be thought is God, that God is thought, that God can as well be a thought, and within the mind, God exists. He seemed to have provided a defense philosophically that God can be thought and that He is a thought. If people are able to gain a good understanding as to why God exists, then it shall exist within their reality and their own understanding because that is what their minds grew to understand. However, in the text, the Fool understands in regards to the definition of God, but he does not believe in His existence. Due to what the Fool understands of God is in his own understanding of it. The fool interprets his perspective of knowledge about God in his own way. The point of Anselm’s argument is to not prove the Fool that he must believe in God. It is to assist the believer to better understand what he believes in, to be aware of the existence of