The formation of the reality of God is absolutely crucial to Descartes’ epistemic project. In the course of Descartes’ approach of methodical disbelief and complete exclusion of the amount …show more content…
Most Western scholarly eras of Descartes, whether atheists or followers, were receptive of this precise theory of God and would, in all probability, not have protested to the growth of this theory. In the advancement of this theory, we are guaranteed that a supreme being flawed by not a thing, would certainly carry the equity of presence. Thus, the interpretation of an idealistic God in our vision, who as a foolproof entity would have to exist, "…ought to have for me at least the same degree of certainty that truths of mathematics had until now." (Descartes 5:44) As an exclusively idealistic entity being all-powerful, all-knowing, etc., at its heart, all of these idealistic properties would be pointless without the continuation. So for Descartes, when we reminisce about the aspect of God, existence is …show more content…
It is our impressionable background and bias to flaw that stands in the way of the fulfilment of sure knowledge.
“But once I perceived that there is a God, and also understood at the same time that everything else depends on him, and that he is not a deceiver, I then concluded that everything that I clearly and distinctly perceive is necessarily true. Hence even if I no longer attend to the reasons leading me to judge this to be true, so long as I merely recall that I did clearly and distinctly observe it, no counter-argument can be brought forward that might force me to doubt it. On the contrary, I have certain knowledge of it." (Descartes, pgs. 46-47)
Descartes’ acknowledgment that without the presence of God we will never have positive and correct knowledge as a mighty affirmation (at least emotionally). It is powerful because the part confidence and authenticity plays in our lives, and in turn the addition of information, is exceedingly valuable. I would comply that when we aim for the accomplishment of information, we must hold the faith (even if it’s somewhere deep in the back of our minds) that when we look into a subject or hypothesis, we aim for accuracy. We would not look into appropriate questions or theories if we did not think that we could come to a valid and authentic result. More clearly, it would not make sense to look into a subject