Descartes' Version Of The Ontological Argument Flashcards

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Descartes disagreed with ? and reformulated the ontological argument on his work, “?”.

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Aquinas.

Meditations.

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Descartes, like ? and ?, believed that people were born with some ready-made ideas. He believed that we’re born with an understanding of what God is. We understand Him to be ? ? with every perfection (omniscience and omnipotence) as his attributes.

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Plato.
Anselm.
Supremely perfect.

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Descartes claimed that existence is part of the ? of God, just as three angles create a ? and a valley is part of a ?

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Essence.
Triangle.
Mountain.

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Descartes argues that because God has all the ?, and existence is a perfection, therefore God ?

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Perfections.

Exists.

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