GB 3: Reading Journal 2

    In Natalie’s GB Blog, Natalie Sims describes the need for a perfect standard that stems from a perfect savior in her essay “Finding Perfection." Natalie claims that one realizes his need for the perfect savior when he realizes his imperfection through his internal doubt. One of the examples that Natalie uses to prove her point is: “As I thought about the very fact that I was doubting and that consequently my being was not altogether perfect (for I saw clearly it was a greater perfection to know than to doubt)” (29). This statement helps establish that Descartes highlights doubt as one of the primary reasons humans fall short of perfection. Another idea Natalie reveals is how, because imperfection exists in humanity, there must be a standard of perfection. One way she enforces this claim is by communicating the thought: “The fact that God is not made shows that he is perfect because he depends on no one and nothing for his existence (…). God does not depend on humans for existence, but rather, humans exist because God exists” (Sims). Natalie explains that God has all the qualities that man does not because He has no creator. According to her explanation of Descartes’s philosophy, an imperfect man cannot come from an imperfect standard. Essentially, Natalie Sims’ analysis of the ideas presented in A Discord on the Method fully discloses the reason why doubt leads man to realize there must be a perfect standard.