PHIL 262 Lecture 5: PHIL-262,University of Arizona,Textbook(p5)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 262
• Professor: All

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Ideas of corporal things are not contained in us since we are nothing but thinking things, but since they are of substance and so are we its possibly they are eminently a part of us. Is there anything i the idea of god that could not have originated from ourselves. Descartes thinks that everything we know and will come to know was already innate to us. Idea of god innate is us because how else could we recognize we are doing wrong compared to someone else. God as the truest and most clear idea to descartes. Natural light v. things perceived by the senses. If i was created from myself i would have surely made myself perfect shows there is a god because we are not perfect. Distinction between preservation and creation is only a conceptual one, evident from the natural light. No, therefore depend on power form another source: god.