proof of a God as Descartes explains would be a lot more acceptable Descartes second argument that God exists is that since he exists God must exist. He starts this argument out with a question, From who do I derive my existence? There are four possible answers: from myself, or from my parents, or from some source less perfect from God, or from God.(135 lines 11-14 Pearl)Descartes believes if he can demonstrate that he could not have been derived from the first three sources, he will have, given the truth of the casual principle proved Gods existence. (135 lines 15-18 Pearl) He admits that his parents were at least part of the cause, but then says he can continue to live without them. He goes on to say that the same power is required to keep someone in existence as to create him for the first time. This is a very valid point but the idea that your parents create you can be combined with Descartes idea that he is his own creator. He admits that he could not possibly be his own creator because he would had made himself in the likeness of a perfect being, in so making himself God. But, if you say that Descartes was created by his parents and sustained by his self, it eliminates the idea of needing God to exist or to be created. Descartes goes on to explain his third conceivable idea that some being other than himself is conserving his existence. He says that the being would have to be not self-existent or self-created otherwise why not make yourself a perfect being such as god. For that reason God, a self-existent, self-created being, must have created the being. Because God would have been self created it brings up the possibility of spontaneous generation and evolution. An idea that has already been brought up within this paper.Descartes states that he has an idea of a perfect being, an idea that has been placed in him by an infinite being, even if you have been given an idea of a perfect being from God it would be impossible for an imp...
