Descartes used the existence o

Descartes used the existence of God as a foundation for all of his thinking. In the time of Descartes, the Catholic Church played a very important role in everyone life, including the life of Descartes. Descartes grew up and remained as a Catholic all his life. So being a Catholic, Descartes has to prove the existence of his belief before he prove anything around him existed. In the fifth meditation, Descartes says the mountain cannot …

…he perceives are falsities of his senses, this is simply another testament to his imperfection. Descartes has proved the existence of a perfect being. Descartes asserts that a Perfect Being must exist, for he knows he is not perfect, therefore something must be perfect. Works Cited Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and the Meditations. Trans. F.E. Sutcliffe. New York: Penguin, 1996. Kessler, Gary. Voice of Wisdom- A multicultural Philosophy Reader. California State of University, Bakersfield, 2001