The purpose of this paper is to identity the reasoning process of Descartes’s deductive argument for the existence of God.
Refer to Meditations 2 and 3, and answer the following question:
Discuss and explain how Descartes arrived at the conclusion that God exists, refuting the evil genius hypothesis.
The assignment should be at least two full pages, use APA formatting with a title page, page numbers, double-spaced, and use material from the text with in-text citations. Also include a reference page. The title page and reference page are not included in the page count.
The marginal numbers refer to the pagination of the Adam and Tannery edition. It is sufficient to use DM when providing in text citation for the Discourse on Method, and use MFP when providing in text citation for the Meditations on First Philosophy, and then include the Adam and Tannery paragraph number located in the margin, e.g. (DM 36) or (MFP 28). Remember to use paragraph numbers and not page numbers.
You will be graded on the relatedness to Rene’ Descartes and his Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Cress, 1998); and evidence of clear writing, grammar and punctuation.
Create your assignment on a separate Word Document (save your document) and then upload your Word Document to the Turnitin Assignment submission. If you submit your paper prior to the due date and forgot something you would like to add, you can resubmit and I will grade the latest submission. If you submit a late paper, only one submission is permitted.
Use APA formatting by providing a title page and reference page, double-spaced, and 12-font. Use proper paragraph structure, grammar and punctuation. The title page and reference page do not count for the page number requirement.
You paper should be at least two full pages of writing.
Use material from the text to support your ideas – use intext citation and list textbook pages or margin numbers as a reference. ** need at least two of them from the text.
You will be graded on fulfilling the requirements above and breadth and depth knowledge of the reading material.
