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Essay / Descartes' argument for the Cartesian circle - 1113
God is defined as "an infinite, eternal, immutable, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful substance, and which created me and all that exists » by Descartes (Descartes 31). The fact that these perfect attributes cannot be made up of a single person and the comparison between the perfection of God and the imperfection of men can be used to lead to Descartes' conclusion. Proving one's faults is almost like proving the first fundamental knowledge: I am a thinking thing. Both evidence implies skepticism. The thought cannot be doubted, because doubting still counts as a thought, and therefore the process of implementing the method of skepticism is actually the process of proving the conclusion. Likewise, my imperfection can be proven when I begin to doubt that God is imperfect or to be skeptical about whether God exists or not, because skepticism or desire is a sign of a lack of something and a a sign of not being entirely perfect. However, this alone cannot conclude that God exists. Descartes argues that we cannot understand our imperfection unless “there is within [us] an idea of a more perfect being which enables [us] to recognize [our] own faults by comparison” (Descartes