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Descartes Two Proofs For God's Existence

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The two arguments that will be compared will between Descartes two different proofs for God’s existence. One in which he argues or explains how God has no imperfections meaning that he is perfect and how it ties into people. On another more confusing argument he argues about the distinction between two realities
The first argument that he makes is the one he has in his third meditation in which he dismisses his existence to be able to go forth and prove God's existence. At first he goes on to say that “there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause,” or formal reality meaning that something can't come from nothing. He gives an example of this by saying that if you were to heat up a

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