Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them - Baruch Spinoza

In this third episode of our Descartes series, we take a close look at his third meditation, and in this Meditation Descartes presents his cosmological, rational existence of God. This argument is of particular importance to Descartes and to his Meditations as he is presenting the answer to the previous two Meditations that caused so much doubt. Descartes argues that something cannot arise from nothing and that something less real cannot give rise to something more real.

We also briefly touch on ontological arguments for the existence of God, which will be an upcoming episode, as Descartes's argument is a form of an ontological argument.

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Thank you for listening and we'll see you next time as we search for truth on the road that never ends!