Create a 12 pages page paper that discusses descartes existence. One of the conversations he started is the nature of human existence, which he suggests originates from God. This, of course, suggests

Create a 12 pages page paper that discusses descartes existence. One of the conversations he started is the nature of human existence, which he suggests originates from God. This, of course, suggests Descartes had some sense of proof that God existed. Both of these concepts can be found toward the end of his Meditation III, published in his book Discourse on Method in 1637. By following his thought process in which he proves that he exists, it is possible to understand fully what Descartes meant when he provided his three proofs that he exists as well as his proof that God exists.

Understanding that Descartes approached the world from an analytical, logically-based viewpoint is essential in understanding his thought process in proving his existence and origins. Instead of simply accepting the forms of reasoning he’d been taught, Descartes believed “that all natural science must be capable of being unified under mathematics, and that the world must be of such a nature as to admit of mathematical treatment” (Vincent 2003). However, instead of dividing thought from all other academic disciplines as his contemporaries had always done, Descartes worked to bring science and philosophy together with similar measures of ‘proofs’ and credibility. “Unsatisfied with scholastic philosophy and troubled by skepticism of the sort expounded by Montaigne, Descartes soon conceived a comprehensive plan for applying mathematical methods in order to achieve perfect certainty in human knowledge” (Kemerling 2002). In approaching philosophy in this way, it is evident that Descartes also attempted to deny the existence of God as a religious and largely human emotional crutch. “Therefore Descartes proposes a method of thought incorporating the rigor of mathematics but based on intuitive truths about what is real, basic knowledge which could not be wrong (like the axioms of geometry). &nbsp.He calls into question everything that he thinks he has learned through his senses but rests his whole system on the one truth that he cannot doubt, namely, the reality of his own mind and the radical difference between the mental and the physical aspects of the world” (Brians 1998).