Open AccessThe Two Truths that Descartes Discovers in His Meditations on First Philosophy that Do Not Require the Divine Guarantee
Author(s) -
Stanley Tweyman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2601-8632
DOI - 10.26417/408bny17
Subject(s) - meditation , paragraph , philosophy , sentence , epistemology , theology , linguistics , computer science , world wide web
In my paper, I show that there are two truths in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy that do not require the divine guarantee, despite Descartes’ claim in the last sentence of the fourth paragraph in the third meditation that he cannot be certain of anything unless he knows that God exists as Descartes’ creator and that God is not a deceiver.