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Descartes’ Ontological Argument

Descartes’ Ontological Argument. L/O – I will be able to explain the key features of Descartes ontological argument. Some background. Descartes’ ontological argument featured in his book Meditations

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Descartes’ Ontological Argument

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  1. Descartes’ Ontological Argument L/O – I will be able to explain the key features of Descartes ontological argument

  2. Some background • Descartes’ ontological argument featured in his book Meditations • His aim of this book was to doubt everything that he could possibly… to see what it was he that he could not doubt (methodological scepticism) His answer; the one thing he could not doubt was …. That he existed

  3. “I think, therefore I am”

  4. Next he enquired into the existence of God to see if he could be a deceiver. → He realised that he had within him a clear and distinct idea of a Perfect God, which did not and could not originate in him as a corporeal (physical, finite) substance. God must exist as the cause of this idea.

  5. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2qfgXf47QE Three sections to the video to note on: • Aim of the argument 2) Triangles 3) God being supremely perfect, predicate…

  6. ID Card: Bertrand Russell ID Card: Gottlob Frege. ID Card: Gaunilo ID Card: Kant. ID Card: Archbishop Anselm ID Card: Norman Malcolm. ID Card: Renee Descartes ID Card: Alvin Plantinga

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