PHI 1500 Lecture 19: Where is God?
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Descartes proved: thinking tings, extended things (used geometry, god. For the source of his idea of god: never. How did he prove god"s existence: uncertain at first about god. Doubted god: the philosophical idea of god; not a traditional concept, developed by him and his mind, he believes that a god exists and therefore he believes in god, the concept of god exists in everyone"s mind. Could your senses tell you about god: no. Wants to prove ownership to his competitors. Polytheistic thinking: origin of the idea. Why is god different: god is the definition of perfection, example: origin of technology is humans. We tried to perfect the environment: what disapproved that things that are more perfect must be the origin of something that"s less perfect, nothing else is perfect. Nothing can come from something that is not perfect. If there is no mountain, there is only a plane. If you think of triangle, you must think of three angles.
