THE OBJECTIVE-IDEALISTIC COMPONENT IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF R. DECARTES: THE FAILURE OF EFFORTS FOR RATIONAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
Vasiliy Pavlovich Goran
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Descartes, philosophy, objective idealism, Christian dogma, incorporeal being, the most perfect being, necessary existence, God, predestination, creation, the Bible, value judgment
Abstract
The article assesses the consistency of Descartes’s efforts to substantiate his conclusion about the reality of the existence of God. The conclusion is made that the doubt in the recognition of God’s existence expressed by Descartes as a conditional one allows us to evaluate it not only as just conditional against his own recognition of the unconditional certainty of the real existence only of his self. The article reveals the lack of credibility in Descartes’s arguments in favor of recognizing the reality of the existence of God, since the philosopher formulated them by considering only the idea of God and referring to God as the most perfect being. Attention is drawn to the fact that Descartes considered God to be incorporeal and at the same time followed the Christian doctrine that the corporeal world is the creation of such a god. It is shown that this inconsistency in developing the image of God occurs not only in Descartes, but also in the Bible. Since, in substantiating his conclusion about the reality of God’s existence, Descartes relies not on the statement of the objective situation concerning the recognition of the legitimacy of such a conclusion, but just on his subjective value preferences, the author notes that this conclusion cannot be recognized as valid.
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