PHL210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ontological Argument, Innatism, Begging The Question
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Lecture 4 descartes" meditations 5 and 6. The argument: must get ideas of external views from existing external things, but that is a common- sense notion that, according to him, must be doubted and dismissed. I of cogito not i of the person (body); rather it is reason itself/incarnate that is connected (?) to the body: essence and existence. October 6, 2015: essence: the nature of a thing as conceived by the mind via c+d ideas. Gives us the possibility of existence (vs. actuality). We need to consider ideas of things in me before we can inquire about outside existence. Truths of maths = c+d = god"s existence. God in a separate category in which existence and essence are inseparable; existence is a perfection and essence of god includes perfection (therefore cannot remove the perfection of existence: ontological argument: belong to it, 1. Therefore does not need proving or supporting; is immediate and self-
