Rene Descartes Proof For The Existence Of God

The Mediator has to discard all the false opinions that he has gathered through his youth (Descartes, 199). Both his conscious and sub-conscious mind leads him to realize that he has to raze and re-establish all pre-conceptions with scientific proof. The evidence that Rene portrays in his “Mediations” is convincing.
The foundation of science is proof. In order to prove the existence of God, Rene Descartes must lay a foundation of indestructible evidence. To achieve his goal, he must first destroy the fundamental beliefs of God’s existence. He also has to destroy the belief that all objects in this materialistic world are non-existence. This perception had to be within a rational framework. Once he has achieved this, he has to justify beyond any skepticism that God exists.

He further elaborates that the body and mind are essentially two separate existences. Mind is thinking and the body is an extension. He also concludes that senses are only an instrumental to guide our movements and essentially not part of knowledge. Imagination is a faculty of hallucination, dreams. He asserts that the mind is the only tool that can secure knowledge. He argues that the will is instrumental in affirming or denying existence. Hence, his conclusion is that the intellect has the will to affirm the mind’s perception.
Somebody may argue that the arguments put forward in Rene’s Mediation are unrealistic. Dreams are hallucination and have no sensation or properties. Our senses can distinguish between reality and disillusions. The intellectual can sense a mosquito bite and therefore it can be concluded that the intellectual can learn through senses. The body and the mind are not two separate entities but a