Descartes' meditation : existence of God

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[...] Descartes' approach is not quite perfect. The problem is the manner in which errors are to be avoided. If he can make an error in judgement simply because he has chosen to believe things in the absence of sufficient evidence, how the will he be able to keep his sinful will under control? Another thing is the measure for sufficient evidence required to judge an idea to be true in fact? Descartes has not explained how such sufficiency could be measured. [...]

[...] This paper is an evaluation of the proofs of the existence of God that have been Argued by Descartes. Causal Argument of the existence of God Within his first meditation, Descartes suggestions an argument with which he does hope will demonstrate that God happens to be the source of entire perfection. It may perhaps be labeled as causal, as well as its form does appear within the Augustin's Neo- Platonic reason. Despite the fact that Descartes does recognize him to be a being that is imperfect, he has an ability to entertain God's idea as a perfect existence. [...]

[...] If the being happens to perfect truly, then it would not lack anything. Consequently, there is no chance that it would lack existence. Therefore, the essence of God does contain his existence (Rene, p.89). God's existence argument following essentially from his essence has implications as well for the thought of the evil deceiver that is mentioned within the 1st meditation. If god happens to be perfect, there is no way he can be a deceiver. In addition, there is no way he can lead an individual into error. [...]

[...] This is an indication the he believes God deceives humans into committing error. He speaks of his judgment faculty within which he means that he acknowledges that it is possible for him to create beliefs on the truth or untruth for various arguments. In the case that Descartes has been created by God who is all good as well as all powerful, perhaps this judgment faculty, if correctly used then never should it lead him to error. However, it truly does so: within his 4th meditation, he is tasked with describing the human error possibility in a manner which does not call God's perfection into doubt (Revie Essays). [...]