Outline

Introduction

4^th Mediation

1. How a judging will is present in him.
2. In the mind, there is that idea that he has a human mind which is controlled by God.
3. He has a mind that can surely turn away from the imaginable things and by which are known by God and in him.

• The ability to deceive is only viewed as power or skill but by will the act is considered a weakness and not a power to be clever in some way.

2. How important this part of the mind is to Descartes.
3. The will to discover that one cannot deceive God.
4. Also creating the idea that God really does exist since we are incomplete without His       help and not a single second does we not depend on Him for life.
5. How to avoid errors and is this power limited and how can one avoid errors.
6.  Everything that is seen comes from him and the will/judgment also is from God   thereby having a positive idea of God and therefore the power to avoid errors is      only limited to man since it is knowledge.
7.      Having a fixed mind towards God can always guide in avoiding errors. Turning                             away from God will lead to mistakes and everyday errors, therefore, being                                     focused are a way to avoid errors.
8.   God provided man with the will while it is a component of errors, is God the                                 origin of errors?
9.       Errors are nothing real that depend on God but it’s a defect by the human mind                              since the mind has turned away from God thereby acting alone                                                        but with the will that God gave the man.
10.      God is not the origin of errors since the human mind and will is limited by the                               knowledge and the will is not equal to that of God, therefore, errors are of the                                human will and not from God.
11.         Demonic evil genius as from the discussion on God and his own relation.
12.          The evil genius is intellect in nature since the mistakes made are purely not of the                         will. It is this knowledge that acts to either want to do something or not thereby                             causing the mistakes.
13.         One cannot control the will in order to always avoid errors since the cause of                                 mistakes is not from the will itself since its perfect but from the intellect which                              has a smaller scope than the will engaging the mind to do things that one does not                                  understand. In this case, the will turns away from what is right and truthful.