DESCARTES : 'THERE IS NO GOD IN THE COSMOS. GOD IS IN HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS'
René Descartes has insisted that the intellect alone could provide us with the certainty he sought. Faith told us nothing that could not be demonstrated rationally.
Descartes argued that god could be known more easily and certainly than any of the other things in existence. Descartes has attempted to establish an equally analytical demonstration of god's existence, but he found no god in cosmos. There was no design in nature. Universe was chaotic and there was not a single sign of design, or intelligent planning.
Descartes found evidence of god in human consciousness; even doubt proved the existence of the doubter! We cannot be certain of anything in the external world, but we can be certain of our own inner experience. We could not arrive at the idea of imperfection if we did not have a prior conception of perfection.
A perfection that did not exist would be a contradiction in terms. Our experience of doubt, therefore, tells us that a supreme and perfect being must exist. Descartes' god is the god of the philosophy, who did not interfere with the worldly affairs. This god has made known of himself not through miracles, but in the eternal laws he has decreed.
