René Descartes and the Existence of God

The prevalent scientific understand of the world does not rely on he existence of a God, and because God’s existence is no long a predetermined understanding the conclusion of the scientific world is that God does not exist. However, the principal of god is not necessarily based in science, and in order to understand the culture of people who believe in God, it is necessary to understand the arguments that accept or perpetuate the existence of God. René Descartes a philosopher who lived from 1596 to 1650 established new guidelines for philosophical thinking. The main teaching of Descartes was to rely less on the senses for perception. With the removal of the senses from the understanding of philosophy Descartes was able to produce a method of philosophical thinking that began only with the concert understanding of his own existence. Beyond this Descartes was able to deduce that he could think. This model allowed Descartes to remove all doubtable philosophies from his own thinking. Regardless of Descartes new construct for philosophy he was able to use accept the existence of god.
In order to prove the existence of God Descartes began with the theory of cause and effect. The effect in this instance is the existence of god. With out a cause the belief in God there would be with out reason, hence the reason to believe in God must be the existence of God. The other proof that God exists comes from the perception of an idea as the total of its parts. God, in the case of Descartes, refers to a Christian god, or the idea of god, is a perfect being. Descartes considered existence to be inherent trait of perfection. Therefore because God was thought of, and all that Descartes could initially accept the existence of was himself and his ability to think, God must exist, and because the thought God was created with the acceptance of the perfection of God the thought of God proves the existence of God and the thought of God as perfect includes the implication in perfects of existence that god must exist.
It is possible to argue to the contrary of Descartes, but what is more important is that Descartes creates a clear logic in his understanding and acceptance of god. In a sense Descartes provides the argument of the logic inherent in the culture of faith, or the cultural relevance of God with in the culture of Faithful people.

Works Cited:

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "Descrates: An Overview." Descrates: An Overview [The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ]. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 24 Oct. 2008 .