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Describe and Assess Descartes Causal Argument For the Existence of God Found in Meditation III
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Describe and Assess Descartes Causal Argument For the Existence of God Found in Meditation III When Descartes reaches his third meditation he has already established his own existence, through the 'Cogito', and the fact that all his thought processes occur under a unity of consciousness which he names the 'Res Cogitans'. However, he has not, as yet been able to prove the existence of things external to him, all he has is the contents of his mind - not even a body! This is the very lonely world of solipsism. Descartes then goes onto work in the opposite direction from which he has been up to this point been working; he sets himself the goal of proving things external to him exist, and uses God as a means to this end. At the beginning of Med III Descartes sums up what he knows; that he is a thinking thing. He...
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