Descartes: The Essence of God and the Essence of Matter

[@DaddyBooneDon]

This goes back to contingent and necessary things, right? If there exists contingent things, one should be able, whether logically or evidentially, to trace these existent things to the necessary thing that substantiates their existence, which we call God. Therefore, God must exist, because by Him all other things exist.

[@TeacherOfPhilosophy]

Honestly, it's been more than a year since I recorded this. Hard to remember! But . . . probably.

[@MuhammadSohaib-n5v]

Something exists even nothing exists therefore what exists is what exists definitely and if it exists definitely it is really there, in the sense of being composite with nonbeing. And if it is really there it is that which is and has been and will be and is the source of consciousness. If one wants to call it God then that doesn't affect its existence very much, calling it Sein in Heideggerian fashion or Dasein, doesn't affect its existence either.