From Descartes' perspective, nature is a representation
of God; therefore, God must intrinsically exist, inasmuch as he, too, is a product of His own creation. Descartes was
one of many philosophers who fully supported this argument
in support of God's existence, contending that the external
world is the ruling force behind the presence of all beings. Descartes' assertions, as portrayed within the literary
boundaries of Meditations on First Philosophy, were founded
not in cosmological or ontological arguments but rather in
teleological debate, inasmuch as the philosopher believed
that there has to be an omnipotent entity responsible for
all the purpose and order that is found within natural
existence and, thereby, stimulating a sense of wonder about
the world.
One of the primary reasons why Meditation III brings
forth such a sense of wonder is because Descartes'
philosophical writings followed a very distinctive trail,
one that pursued a path of purity and sincerity. He
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to
humans within the natural world, and his concept of forming
an adequate ethical code was thought to be the only way in
which people could truly base their value system. Within
this natural world of which he spoke, Descartes theorized
that knowledge was the ultimate controller of the
environment, thus supporting the teleological argument as
proof of God. He persevered and postulated as to how he
could at last seal the overwhelming gap that existed between
thought and action. It was through his writings that
Descartes exercised the possibility that all thought and
action are interconnected, bringing to mind the view of
science and how it undoubtedly demonstrated the sa ...