Do Descartes’ Arguments for God’s Existence Make Him Religious?

Was He God-Intoxicated or in Rehab?

Charles Gray
The Academy of You
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2 min readMay 19, 2020

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The word “religious” denotes several things and connotes even more, so there are many possible ways to describe Descartes’ religiosity.

A perfect being is a necessary part of Descartes’ ontology and consequent epistemology. In the second meditation, Descartes exclaims, “I…

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Charles Gray
The Academy of You

“If it can be done, why do it?” Gertrude Stein