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Do you acknowledge that hence you are not wholly perfect ? Even this is certainly quite true and can be said without disparagement . Is it hence you gather that something more perfect than you exists ? What ? As if whatever you desire ...
Do you acknowledge that hence you are not wholly perfect ? Even this is certainly quite true and can be said without disparagement . Is it hence you gather that something more perfect than you exists ? What ? As if whatever you desire ...
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Finally , from the fact that you exist and possess the idea of a supremely perfect being , you conclude , that you have a highly evident demonstration of the existence of God . But though your conclusion , viz . that God exists is true ...
Finally , from the fact that you exist and possess the idea of a supremely perfect being , you conclude , that you have a highly evident demonstration of the existence of God . But though your conclusion , viz . that God exists is true ...
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Thus that State will be more perfect in which all the citizens are good , than another in which many or some are bad . Whence , also , when a little later you say : that the perfection of the universe is in some sense greater , in that ...
Thus that State will be more perfect in which all the citizens are good , than another in which many or some are bad . Whence , also , when a little later you say : that the perfection of the universe is in some sense greater , in that ...
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Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Philosophical Works, Volume 2 Philosophical Works, René Descartes |
| Author | René Descartes |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2011 |
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