Descartes' Trademark Proof of God - Philosophy Tube

How does Descartes try to prove the existence of God in his Meditations?

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Rene Descartes, Meditations
Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
Jim Cottingham, Descartes

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[annapotratz]

I have three days to do a philosophy paper and am using it as an excuse to binge Abby's oldest videos

[soanedewinter]

I think, therefore I subscribed to this channel.

[georgepantzikis]

After this argument his point is basically:
1. Triangles exist
2. Therefore God

[iggypopshot]

"I'm pink therefore I'm spam" was always a fave as a kid... And still now, come to think of it!

[mariatinawi]

I've been reading Descartes for nearly 5 years now and have taken courses about him at university, and no one has been able to explain his theory as simply as you. Congrats, dude! You helped me understand this better than a university professor has.

[BeatBuddha]

Ethics of Suicide: A subject we just Kant touch.

[katieevans]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! I'M STUDYING THIS AGAINST MY WILL AND YOU ARE SO HELPFUL!! X

[redsparks]

I often wonder if Descartes realised his philosophical insight and teaching of methodical doubt was so powerful that it could be used to disprove the existence of God and then thought sh..t I had better use it to prove the existence of God otherwise I am in big trouble with the Inquisitors.

[kevinthomas]

Luke Skywalker and the force must exist or else George Lucas would have never had thought of them

[chrissolomon]

Please do the ethics of suicide! I wrote a paper on euthanasia, stating the reasons why I am for it, and I would like to hear of any philosophers who may have given thought to the subject.

[BMO-isgb]

I wish he talked about Meditation 5, where Descartes tried to prove the existence of God again.

[YukonHexsun]

I'm currently writing a rebuttal of the Trademark argument for my Metaphysics and Epistemology class, so thank you for the help :)

[KitrinaKanaris]

This was always my least favorite argument to the point of irrational(?) rage. Thank you for this breakdown! Even though I am seeing it 7 years or so later….

[skepticdank]

Aw, so cute. Baby, pimple faced, male presenting Abigail.

[timmelvin]

why did i find this channel 45 minutes before my final exam?

[smdmofo]

lets be real though, bannanas are all the proof you need for god

[PenDragonx]

Maybe not levels of reality, but level of contingent existence. Brown can only existence as a property of something else. Just like a object sustains its properties what sustains the existence of objects.

Perhaps seperately unsure, I am a imperfect being I can make mistakes and I can die. But I have knowledge that perfect being could exist though nothing in the universe is perfect. So were is my referent? imagination is powerful but it seems to me that only rearranges pre-existing ideas in seemingly new ways.

[TbaofTalent]

This is Platonic Ideology (overall, it seems so). 
The premise behind reality is similar to the Theory of Forms. Besides being more real or less real, formal reality and representational reality are really the problems with Universals. Substances of a finite or infinite nature are in a ontological sense, a "Particular" set (hence the principle). It is an opposition of compositions (and similarities are included) based on what I've learned. 
Mathematics (most particularly in sets or pairs of numbers) plays at this a lot. 

[biancahumble]

yay, been folowing for three years, and now this is finaly relevent to my studdies!

[SockTaters]

How could someone believe something so ludicrous? Really? There must be a god because you believe there is? So if I imagine a chocolate cookie that created the universe, must it exist because it's infinite substance?