hum 112 assigment 1

Assignment 1: Essay
Edwin D Giraldo
Professor: Ibrahim H Alsaeed, Ph.D.
HUM 112
10/26/2014

I think the topic that I select is very interesting but I think is a little bit controversial because this writer includes God in his Discourse of the Method. The way that Descartes started this passage made me think that he relies on his own understanding including that he was really confused about his existence, where his thoughts and ideas came from this part was very surprise to me. The first point when I get surprise was when he said that he decided to pretend that every thought he had, were no more true, than the illusions and dreams he always had. Being a person that believes in God. For this reason I put in the beginning of the paragraph that this topic is a little bit controversial. Then to my surprise, he came to realize that the ideas put in him were by something greater than him. He said that the thing greater than him is God. Another statement that took me by surprise was when he stated that God was in us.
He realized that human were imperfect but that we also had a form of perfection in us from God, thus, giving us the ability to attain certain thoughts and ideas. Another wow factor for me that Descarte mentioned was when he said that if there were any other intelligences or natures that weren’t perfect, they would have to be totally dependent on God power to stay alive or even be part of existence. The reason this surprised me was because this is something that many people never think about or they do not want to have in consideration. People are always doubting where they come from and why we are here, but never really put these two things together. If it were not for God, we would never even be here! But this thought is for people that believe that God is the creator. I believe that the surprise ending was when Descartes realized that God is perfect and he was made to see this by God. Descartes state that “God is perfect and his ideas were placed in him by God and he depended on this being because he is so perfect for his existence”.

Descarte convinced me of the validity of his thinking by several factors. He first spoke about the subject matter of geometry and how many different shapes and sizes could be moved around in all types of ways. Then he mentioned how all of a triangles angles perfectly equal to right angles, comparing this to the perfection of God. He also stated that people never try to raise their minds above things that can be perceived. In these points he make a strong enfaces and he put a good example of the invention that God have offer to have to have a good and advances societies but unfortunately the humanity use this knowledge with different purpose.