Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

It remained, then, to conclude that it was put into me by a nature truly more perfect than was I and possessing in itself all the perfections of what I could form an idea—in a word, by God . . . for if I had existed alone and independent of all other, so that I had of myself all this little whereby I participated in the Perfect Being, I should have been able to have in myself all those other qualities which I knew myself to lack. (Discourse on Method) By introspection Descarates perceives that the perfections attributed to God do not belong to Descartes himself.

These perfections include _____________________. Select all that apply.
infinite being
immutability
omniscience
flawless body

Answer 1

infinite being

immutability

omniscience

We would not say flawless body, knowing that God is human and he does not have human attributes, rather He something that as humans just can't perceive. Though when you hear about Him in the bible, He is spoken about as if He has physical human attributes, that is just metaphors so humans can understand what is being said about God.

Answer 2

The answers are: infinite being, immutability, omniscience.

By introspection, in this famous proof that Descartes provides for the existence of God, he comes to understand that God, being a perfect being, must be perfect in every which way, so that being (God being the infinite one or Being), immutability (the actual power to remain the same through eternity), and omniscience (or the actual capacity of knowing everything) are ideas that a human being can intuit but that are not of human nature, but, since a human being can somehow fathom them, they must have been, a fortiori, put there by a being capable of actualizing those ideas or else they would have no foundation, which would be absurd.