Rene Dascartes

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  • Rene Decartes was a french mathematician and philosopher.
  • Descartes believed that the Ontological Argument was proof of God’s existence.
  • As a mathematician Descartes was used to working with deductive arguments because all mathematical sums are deductive arguments.
  • Like Anselm, Descartes believed it was possible to know God’s essence.
  • Descartes’ Argument
    1. God is a supremely perfect being.
    2. Existence is a perfection (existence must be one of the predicates of a perfect being)
    3. Therefore God has existence as a perfection which means he exists.