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This document is an excerpt from John Locke's work "Deus" from 1696. It summarizes Locke's criticism of Descartes' proof for the existence of God. Specifically, Locke argues that Descartes' proof does not conclusively demonstrate that the first eternal cause of all things is an intelligent spirit (i.e. God), and that it could also be senseless matter. Locke also criticizes Descartes for excluding final causes from his philosophy and for trying to invalidate all other proofs of God besides his own.
This document is an excerpt from John Locke's work "Deus" from 1696. It summarizes Locke's criticism of Descartes' proof for the existence of God. Specifically, Locke argues that Descartes' proof does not conclusively demonstrate that the first eternal cause of all things is an intelligent spirit (i.e. God), and that it could also be senseless matter. Locke also criticizes Descartes for excluding final causes from his philosophy and for trying to invalidate all other proofs of God besides his own.
This document is an excerpt from John Locke's work "Deus" from 1696. It summarizes Locke's criticism of Descartes' proof for the existence of God. Specifically, Locke argues that Descartes' proof does not conclusively demonstrate that the first eternal cause of all things is an intelligent spirit (i.e. God), and that it could also be senseless matter. Locke also criticizes Descartes for excluding final causes from his philosophy and for trying to invalidate all other proofs of God besides his own.
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32. Deus (1696)
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Though I had heard Des Cartes’s opinion concerning 119r
the being of a God often questioned by Sober Men and noe Though I had heard Des Cartes’s opinion concerning the enemies to his name. Yet I suspended my judgement of being of a God often questioned by Sober Men and noe him till lately setting my self to examine his proof of a God I enemies to his name. Yet I suspended my judgement of him found that by it Senseless matter might be the first Eternall till lately setting my self to examine his proof of a God I found being and cause of all things as well as an immateriall that by it Senseless matter might be the first Eternall being intelligent Spirit. This joyned to his shutting out the and cause of all things as well as an immateriall intelligent Consideration of finall Causes out of his philosophie and his Spirit. This joyned to his shutting out the Consideration s labouring to invalidate all other proofs of a God but his own, of finall Causes out of his philosophie and his labouring