GOD Descartes in meditation three states his reasoning for the existence of God. The concept he uses to justify the existence of God is that God is so unique that to have the ability to think of a being of infinite power and wisdom must mean that that being exists. The idea is that something of less complexity, our minds or are being in general, can't produce the idea of something more complex, God or …
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…would be impossible to have the idea of God without the actual being. Unfortunately, I think Descartes holds the human conception of God too highly and fails to realize that the human idea of God is as flawed as humans are. Therefore, I feel he has erred and using his logic has only managed to prove the existence of humans, based on the fact that they have an idea of a being with human qualities.