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Descartes: God as the Idea of Infinity
Author(s) -
CRUMPLIN MARYANN
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2007.00333.x
Subject(s) - philosophy , opposition (politics) , argument (complex analysis) , scholarship , infinity , epistemology , reading (process) , key (lock) , mathematics , linguistics , computer science , law , chemistry , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , politics , political science , computer security
This article returns to Descartes' texts and correspondence and looks to recent scholarship to reveal three key elements of Descartes' distinctive epistemological structure. It shows that because objectors ignore Descartes' opposition to the ‘order of being’ they are led to a binary and incorrect reading of his argument. However, by correctly following Descartes' own logic, the method of doubt can be used to prove the existence of an infinite God.