Abstract

AbstractThe article begins with the journey towards knowledge of the infinite that is traced out in Descartes'sMeditations.Drawing on Levinas's construal of the argument in the Third Meditation, I argue that Descartes's reflections on God as infinite can be a starting point for deepening our understanding of the religious quest – the paradoxical human search for that which, by its very nature, is incomprehensible to the human mind. The second half of the article argues that this search is from first to last structured by desire and longing, and that somethingprima facienon-cognitive and non-epistemic, namely thedesirefor God, has a cognitive and epistemic role to play. Perhaps desire can be our human way, orahuman way, whereby we can (in Descartes's words) ‘in a certain manner attain to’ the infinite perfection that is God.

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