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Charlene asked:

How can a great philosopher like Descartes, believe that existence is shared when we don't share the
same god in the C20th? He even believes there can only be one god!

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Descartes defines God as the supreme Being which possesses all perfections, a Being which cannot
be conceived to be more perfect. Now if there was more than one god it would obviously be possible
to imagine these gods combined, rolled into one — this one God would be 'more', more perfect than
the two gods. Hence Descartes would argue that multiple gods are not God in the sense of the
supreme Being. So it seems that if you want to believe in God you have to either give up the claim
'God is perfect' or the claim 'there can be more than one God', you cannot have both since they
contradict each other.

Helene Dumitriu

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