Disproving Descart's Existence of God.

Title: Disproving Descart's Existence of God.
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Disproving Descart's Existence of God.

Seventeenth century philosopher René Descartes was a rational thinker. He sought to prove theories using only reason because he viewed the senses as unreliable. While many other philosophical thinkers of the seventeenth century were using both reason and the senses to prove their theories, Descartes' rationalist mind lead him to prove the existence of God through reason alone. His thoughts resulted in a chain of causation that begins with the existence of himself and ends …showed first 75 words of 1487 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1487 total…of God that he "proves" in "Meditations on First Philosophy" is weak and left open to easy objection by anyone, regardless of his/her belief or disbelief in the existence of the "perfect being" that is God. Works Cited Descartes, René. "Meditation on First Philosophy." Classics of Western Philosophy. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge: 2002. Gijsbers, Victor. "Theistic and Atheistic Arguments." Positive Atheism. September 1995. 13 April 2003 <http://www.positiveatheism.org/faq/arguindex.htm#thearg>.

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