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Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation • Cartesian Circle is implicit in the Trademark Argument – the Clear and Distinct Rule is justified by appealing to God and God is justified by appealing to the Clear and Distinct rule. • Trade mark argument relies on the premise that we all have innate ideas of God. Problems: what does this mean? / how can this be proven empirically?/ what about atheists?. • The premise that there must be as much reality in the cause as in the effect is questionable: evolution describes how conscious entities can evolve from non-conscious ones. • Problem of evil questions the ‘all-goodness’ or benevolence of God • Might there be a benevolent God who allows us to be fooled for His own mysterious purposes? • Ontological argument; does this break the Cartesian circle? • Is the Ontological argument sound? • All Descartes arguments rely on the existence of a benevolent God –so without God everything collapses. Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation • Trade mark argument relies on the premise that we all have innate ideas of God. • Problems: what does this mean? / how can this be proven empirically?/ what about atheists?. Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation • The premise that there must be as much reality in the cause as in the effect is questionable: evolution describes how conscious entities can evolve from nonconscious ones. Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation • Problem of evil questions the ‘allgoodness’ or benevolence of God Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation Might there be a benevolent God who allows us to be fooled for His own mysterious purposes? Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation Ontological argument; does this break the Cartesian circle? Is the Ontological argument sound? Descartes reliance on the role of God – evaluation All Descartes arguments rely on the existence of a benevolent God –so without God everything collapses.