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The Ontological Arguement of Descartes

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:35:02
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The proof for the existence of God that is the most believable in my opinion is Descartes' Ontological Argument. He states that God's existence is contingent directly from the fact that necessary existence is restricted in the clear and distinct idea of a supremely perfect being. He explains it best in his Fifth Meditation where he says: "But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the idea of something entails that …

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…amp;gt;Descartes maintains that God's existence is ultimately known through intuition. The way this was explained by Descartes, I find to be an amazing way of explaining any Christian's feelings regarding the question of the existence God. God is a feeling inside, or as Descartes put it an "intuition" we may not be able to scientifically prove God's existence because you can not visibly see a feeling but that does not prove its non-existence.

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