PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethics (Spinoza), Divine Providence, Baruch Spinoza

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Devin Shaw

Document Summary

Descartes, meditation 4 concerning the true and the false. Goals why for descartes, god is not the author of errors. The reason for errors the possibility that we make mistakes. How humans happen to make particular mistakes (how human beings are. ** des(cid:272)a(cid:396)tes (cid:396)ule to a(cid:448)oid e(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396): (cid:862)i should (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) judge a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g that i do (cid:374)ot (cid:272)lea(cid:396)l(cid:455) a(cid:374)d disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tl(cid:455) u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d(cid:863) Meditation 4 opens with a summary of descartes conclusions from meditation 3. Puts forward his first proof for the existence of god (a supremely perfect being). Meditation 4 (cid:862)i a(cid:373) a thi(cid:374)g that is i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete a(cid:374)d depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t, the(cid:396)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)es to mind a clear and distinct idea of a being that is independent and (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete, that is, a(cid:374) idea of god(cid:863) Descartes argues that god exists (cid:271)ut he(cid:859)s left (cid:449)ith the p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373) of explaining from whence error comes. God (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e a(cid:374) e(cid:448)il ge(cid:374)ius, fo(cid:396) a (cid:862)(cid:449)ill to de(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e(cid:863) is a (cid:373)a(cid:396)k of imperfection.