But this is just to say that, ultimately, we strive for a knowledge of God.
Scotus agrees with Thomas Aquinas that all our knowledge of God starts from creatures, and that as a result we can only prove the existence and nature of God by what the medievals call an argument quia (reasoning from effect to cause), not by an argument propter quid (reasoning from essence to characteristic).
The Bible teaches that all human beings have some knowledge of God - from nature and their consciences - though it also reminds us of the "falleness" of human nature, the selfish reluctance to listen to the divine.
However dubious Descartes' grounding of all scientific knowledge in metaphysical knowledge of God, his system contributes significantly to the advance of natural science in the period.
KILBORNE FINDS RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM; Believes, However, That Desire for Knowledge of God Is in All Men's Minds.
DR. KILBORNE FINDS RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM; Believes, However, That Desire for Knowledge of God Is in All Men's Minds.
In this case too, however, the rule now has a different status for Descartes, since it is supported by certain knowledge of God, on whom all things depend, and the immortality of the soul.
How can there be knowledge of God, he asks, when all knowledge comes through the senses and God, being immaterial, cannot be sensed?
Bonaventure locates knowledge of God's existence within all three parts of an Aristotelian science as demonstrated conclusion, as common axiom, and as proper postulate.
Some of the people who lay claim to the knowledge of God's will for all people should be secretly hoping that the God they lay claim to doesn't exist.
