PHIL 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Divine Presence, Omnipotence, Ontological Argument
20 Jan 2016
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A problem to scepticism for descartes is human-centrism. He becomes interested in different aspects of reason, like math, geometry and logic, because they seem to reject scepticism they have a compelling feature to them and are universal (we are forced to assent to them) He thinks that this resists a kind of problem, because our nature compels us to believe these things math and geometry, for example, are more necessary and universal than sensory perception. So he brings up god because he is trying to base reason in something that is universal and non-human. Descartes thinks we have to use mathematical calculations in order to understand the world because we live in a mathematical universe. Physics is a very relativistic way of viewing the universe (relative to humans) He is trying to establish the divine presence of god. When we try to understand how things in the world work, we understand them as material we can calculate, predict them.
