CARTESIAN IDEA OF GOD AS THE INFINITE

• Authors: Ksenija Puškariċ
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses presuppositions of the so-called trademark argument for the existence of God presented by Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The author explores the interpretation of Descartes’s idea of God as the infinite that provides a response to a difficult philosophical and theological question: How can the human mind obtain a coherent idea of God, whose infinite and transcendent greatness reaches beyond reason? I propose a conceptual distinction to defend the Cartesian thesis, namely, that it is possible to have a clear and distinct idea of the infinite, while consistently sustaining the negative theological element of God as ultimately incomprehensible.

Keywords

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CARTESIAN; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; GOD; INFINITY; THEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 282 – 290

Contributors

author

Ksenija Puškariċ

• Saint Louis University Department of Philosophy, 3800 Lindell blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA