fredag 14 december 2012

Descartes' god who fools you to think


Rather to escape the ecclesiastical prosecution than for the sake of metaphysical necessity Descartes postulates God as he does in his system – even if Descartes’s reason for postulating God at the top of his doubt is rational it is nevertheless not what he actually experiences, that for his being to think only existence is required. God is superficial here so far. Beyond the being that thinks however is the world one wants to calculate and measure, to create the world by means of technology. An operation that cannot be undertaken by experience and ultimately intuition – it requires science, notably mathematics. Somebody must nevertheless guarantee the existence of physical laws that allows for a scientific examination of the world, for human technological creation. As for Kant God is merely needed to guarantee freedom and not our metaphysical knowledge Descartes is yet an Aristotelian in supposing the world to be created by the transcendent god. But the god of physical laws is miles away from the god of Christian eschatology. Therefore, and also by learning to know  rather than to believe, like Aristotle, Descartes was not a Christian. Descartes’ god fools you to think. A god almost impossible to tell apart from the drive that urges one to want to know.

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