I think therefore God Is

            Throughout Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes restates that he must throw off what he does not perfectly understand and keep only that what he fully understands. As he states those two things that he certainly understands are that he himself is a thinking thing and that God exists. He provides many reasons why God exists, but his main point is that since he can think of God. God must have placed that “nature” in him, so God must exist. Descartes does a great job of razing the world around him to get to the conclusion “I think therefore I am,” but to reach “I think of God therefore God is” to me seems like a stretch. Because we can think of an infinite god does not require that the god necessarily exist. He assumes that since we have thought of the infinite, the infinite must exist. He grew up in a society, much like we do, where the idea and concept of God exist. At some point in time, someone may have thought of an infinite god being simply by negating the finite. And then over time the idea may have been accepted and then we reach the point where Descartes believes that God is infinite.

            Some of his arguments are better than his first one, like to be perfect, it must necessarily exist, but I believe he should have started with stronger one, rather than a variation of the proof of his existence.