ource from which I had learned to think of something more perfect than I was, and I plainly knew that this had to be from some nature that is infact more perfect".(Cress, pg-19). Descartes realizes that since he is a being that thinks, there must be a supreme being more perfect than him to help him to realize his imperfection. For example, how could he know what are his shortcomings, without a perfect more supreme being to compare himself to. Also, how can he exists without amore supreme being to create him? Finally, he ponders whether the idea could have been innate in him. Since Descartes believe that something cannot evolve from nothing. Thus leading to the conclusion idea of infinite must therefore be due to the existence of an infinite, which must have placed this idea in him. Thus, proving his theory of the existence of God. From the nature of the perfection that God is, Decartes comes to conclusion that God is the ultimate causeless cause. Decartes holds that the innate idea of God that rises in the mind is sufficient proof of God's having made man in His own image. God's existence is the precondition of the existence of all other things, including the individual souls, and also of His idea in the human mind. Since there cannot be an idea of God without the existence of God. Proving the existence of god, Descartes them turns his attention toward the external world, namely the body. First Descartes separates the sensation as being separate from his imagination because he does not have any control over it. Then a contradiction takes over this argument, since he faces the same problem of decepation of senses again. To counter this Descartes concludes that our knowledge of the material this is based on our knowledge of God. He asserts that God has created him with such as strong belief in the material things that they must not be false, "It follows from this that our ideas or notions being real things and coming from Go...
