Respond on kamari with 150 words
Descartes finds that human error cannot be attributed to God because God’s perfection is absent of deception. According to Descartes, Intellect itself is without error even though it has a limitation of ideas. In Contrast, Free Will is limitless. It is through the faculty of exercising free will that he himself fell into error. Moreover, through exercising our will in matters that we do not fully understand, mistakes are made and false beliefs are held to be true. From my understanding, Descartes employs “Intelect” on the problem to gather a clear and distinct understanding of it (which is limited/Intellect) first and then our will is able to reach the right choice or solution about the problem or form truth in our beliefs. If through the limitation of the Intellect clear and distinct understanding cannot be grasped, our will should reserve judgment thereby preventing it from falling into error.
From Intellect or intelligence we gather our understanding from thoughts formed in our analysis of a thing. The thought being the cause of it all. Although, we are able to comprehend some things we are not able to comprehend all things due to its limitations. By acting on the principles of knowledge the Will’s limitless free will can be checked from asserting false beliefs, assumptions or judgment. However, if I employ the idea or assumption that man’s very nature is truth and falsehood strangely mixed the essence of his argument goes against the nature of man.
We might remember in the movie “Scarface” when Tony’s character says, “I always tell the truth even when I lie.” <span;>If characterizing man’s imperfections as perfectly defined (human nature of truth and falsehood strangly mixed) within himself. Then a lie can be truth and truth can be a lie according to his nature or infirmities.
