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fun4us2b · M
It's up to each person to decide. 🤷
I like the way Descartes tries to parcel it out:
God is a central figure, acting as the ultimate guarantor of truth, the source of innate ideas (like infinity), and the foundation for knowledge beyond radical doubt, proving God's existence through ontological arguments (existence is a perfection, thus a perfect being must exist) and causal arguments (an infinite idea requires an infinite cause) in his Meditations. He defines God as an infinite, independent, supremely perfect being, whose existence is necessary for the certainty of reason and the external world
Innate Idea: Humans possess an innate idea of God as an infinite, perfect being, like a craftsman's mark on his product, placed there by God himself.
I like the way Descartes tries to parcel it out:
God is a central figure, acting as the ultimate guarantor of truth, the source of innate ideas (like infinity), and the foundation for knowledge beyond radical doubt, proving God's existence through ontological arguments (existence is a perfection, thus a perfect being must exist) and causal arguments (an infinite idea requires an infinite cause) in his Meditations. He defines God as an infinite, independent, supremely perfect being, whose existence is necessary for the certainty of reason and the external world
Innate Idea: Humans possess an innate idea of God as an infinite, perfect being, like a craftsman's mark on his product, placed there by God himself.