Pros And Cons Of Rene Descartes

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Within Descartes meditations we see that he concludes humans, as substances of God do possess free will. Descartes conclusion derives from three previous propositions; 1) that God exists 2) God is not a deceiver and 3) God created him and is therefore responsible for all his faculties, including his judgment. Based on these three propositions, it seems that this is a contradiction, if a supremely perfect non-deceiving being created a substance and is responsible for all of its faculties, how is it that this created substance occasionally finds itself in error?

Descartes contributes human error to our finitude and us existing between God and
“nothingness.” He says that the nothingness within us is to blame for our errors and not our innate
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