Reasoning and Meditation in Descartes' Third Meditation

• Published in: The European legacy, toward new paradigms Vol. 27; no. 3-4; pp. 300 - 309
• Main Author: Tweyman, Stanley
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 19.05.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: argumentation; Descartes; God; knowledge; Meditation; reasoning

My article focuses on Descartes' Third Meditation, in which he seeks to gain a knowledge of God as his creator. While Descartes offers two proofs of God's existence in this meditation-the first to prove that God is the cause of his idea of God, and the second to prove that God is the cause...