Med 5

Meditation 5 from my perspective felt like repetition of the discourse. However, I pulled out some points i think Descartes was trying to get across: Comparing God to the knowledge of math, Knowledge of God & knowledge of math are clear and distinct, there is no physical evidence of God (unlike math), God is only an idea that is passed down through belief and teaching? At the end of the meditation he has a set foundation of mathematical and scientific knowledge, "But now it is possible for me to achieve full and certain knowledge about countless things, both about God and other intellectual things (math & sciences), as well as about the entirety of that corporeal nature which is the object of pure mathematics"(p 92). I think Descartes is trying to push God aside and give mathematics and sciences a chance. He doesn't assert his view, probably due to the fact of getting killed for thinking such thoughts. Just my 2 cents.