Descartes

Question 1

Three sources of his beliefs and their errors

Answer 1

Vision: wrong sometimes so could be all the time
Imagination: dreaming
Intellect: evil demon

Question 2

Aim of descartes

Answer 2

To find an indubitable truth

Question 3

Three divine attributes

Answer 3

Omniscient
Omnipotent
Omnibenevolent

Question 4

I think, I exist

Answer 4

Cogito, ergo sum
Two facts
Can’t be doubted

Question 5

Wax

Answer 5

Wax change change all the properties but remain the same wax
The essence of the physical is extension
The essence of the mind is consciousness
Can’t understand wax through senses, only through the intellect in the mind alone

Question 6

Clear and distinct rule

Answer 6

Can’t error if only attend to clear and distinct ideas
God isn’t a deciever
God gives us ability to distinguish between true and false ideas
So clear and distinct ideas must be true
Leads to Cartesian circle

Question 7

Cartesian circle

Answer 7

Know our ideas are reliable because guaranteed by god

Know god exists because we have reliable ideas

Question 8

Formal reality

Answer 8

Something that exists
God has infinite formal reality
All ideas have the same formal reality because they’re all ideas

Question 9

Objective reality

Answer 9

The reality of ideas
Idea of God has infinite objective reality
Idea of myself 100
Idea of an idea 10

Question 10

Trademark arguement

Answer 10

We have idea of God = objective reality
Descartes causal principle something must have same level of reality as it’s cause
Must been God has infinite formal reality
God exists

Question 11

Preservation argument

Answer 11

4 sources of the idea of god. 3 only have finite power and knowledge

Takes as much power to hold something in reality as it does to create it
Preservation=initial creation=infinite power

Idea can’t have come from senses or imagination cus we never encountered divine attributes
God put it there like a stamp

Question 12

Ontological argument for god

Answer 12

God is supremely perfect = has all the perfections

Existence is a perfection
God who exists is better than one that doesn’t
Kant said existence isn’t a property

Question 13

Finitude and humility

Answer 13

We make mistakes because he gave us free will

Implies capacity to choose wrongly

Question 14

Judgement for error

Answer 14

When we don’t choose clear and distinct ideas
The intellect and the will
Intellect has finite power the will either confirms or denies
Problem of infinite regress
The with is infinite so we share a divine attribute

Question 15

Pascal’s wager

Answer 15

It’s a bet
Belief promises better outcomes
Might just go to hell for lapsed belief tho