Philosophy 2202F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Actual Infinity, Cosmological Argument, Causality
25 Jan 2017
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Moral to draw from second meditation: likely candidate for the criterion of truth is clear and distinct perception. Clarity = seeing something just as it ought to be seen. Distinctness = seeing something as distinct from everything else. The true foundation of knowledge is god. God is something that we clearly and distinctly perceive. To get people like us to recognize within ourselves that we clearly and distinctly perceive god: we must clearly and distinctly perceive that god exists, and we must clearly and distinctly perceive something important about his nature: Cosmological argument: argue that give a certain kind of phenomenon, god is the only thing that can cause it. Cosmological argument general form: phenomena x obtains, god is the only thing that can cause x, therefore, god exists. The phenomena x descartes utilizes is the idea of god which we all possess: the basis for this is the infinitude that is the essence of this idea of god.
