• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.99-107
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• 2007

최근 김세화는 "프로슬로기온" 3장에 나오는 논증을 새롭게 해석하는 방안을 제시했다고 주장한다. 그에 따르면, 그가 제시한 논증 III 은 3장에 대한 기존의 해석과 다르며, 3장에 대한 또 다른 가능한 해석인 논증 IV보다도 더 낫다. 여기서 나는 논증 III은 기존의 해석과 견주어 볼 때 새롭다고 하기 어려우며, 나아가 그가 원하는 결론을 얻고자 한다면 도리어 논증 III보다 논증 IV를 택해야 함을 보인다.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.199-209
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• 2008

In a recent paper, Wonbae Choi raises two objections to my interpretation of the argument in Proslogium 3. The first one is that my interpretation is not new, and the second one is that there is an alternative interpretation which is better than mine. I defend my interpretation against them. I also touch on a related issue which can be derived from his second objection.

• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• v.141
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• pp.1-42
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• 2017

This paper's purpose is to seek to grasp how Descartes demonstrates proofs of God's existence on the basis of his works especially Meditations. To consider these points, I shall explore first, second, third proofs that are present in his works, and contents related to God. Descartes argues that there is idea of God within me, but it is God, which is first proof. On the basis of this fact, Descartes shows only God is the cause of thinking self who has idea of God(second proof), both of them are called Cosmological argument. To investigate this, at first he states that representative reality that is different from formal reality sets a kind of hierarchy, the degree of this reality is equally applied to cause and effect, consequently to the cause of my idea or existence(God). From Meditation V, third proof which is called Ontological argument, Descartes examined a supremely perfect God can't be separated from God's existence(perfection) just as surly as the certainty of any shape or number, for example triangle, namely it is quite evident that God's existence includes his essence. Through these processes I shall examine following points: the way of having Descartes' proofs of God's existence itself is not only exposed, God's existence who guarantees cogito ergo sum which is never doubted, despite doubting all things that is outside, is but also postulated; Proofs for the existence of God are an ultimate source of ensuring the clear and distinct perception of human reason, Descartes uses reason suitable for non-christians instead of faith suitable for Christians for these methods, which are similarities with the traditional views on the one hand, but nevertheless there are some of discontinuities establishing authority or power of the first philosophical principle to which God is subjected, on the other.