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The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the arguments of Descartes and Hume on the existence of God.
Hume argues there is no way to prove abstract ideas or final causes, and that, “Whenever any object is presented to the memory or senses, it immediately, by the force of custom, carries the imagination to conceive that object, which is usually conjoined to it; and this connection is attended with a feeling or sentiment, different from the loose reveries of the fancy.” (V, II, p. 31-37). In other words, real causes (or abstract ideas) are simply a fiction, “The mind has but a slender hold of them.” (II, p. 13).
Descartes argued that he exists, he knows this for certain, but only God could be the cause of his existence. Descartes argued that he could not possibly have the idea of God, unless God had formal and eminent reality – the cause of his existence, his clear and distinct ideas. With Descartes, there appears to be a permanent self that has continuity over time. The permanent self is necessary for certainty – to go beyond that which is externally perceived to that which has a logical relation or representation of the phenomenal world.
Assignment question:
What do you think is the difference between Hume’s and Descartes’s arguments – what is the significance?
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Cress, D. (1998). Rene′ Descartes: Discourse on method and meditations on first philosophy (4th ed). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co.
Steinberg, E. (1993). David Hume: An enquiry concerning human understanding; with a letter from a gentleman to his friend in Edinburgh; and Hume’s abstract of a treatise of human nature (2nd ed). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co.
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