The principle of noncontradiction and Descartes' god

Abstract

The article analyzes the status of the principle of non-contradiction as an eternal truth in Descartes' metaphysics, and tries to answer the question is it caused. After making the difference between created and uncreated eternal truths, the reached conclusion is that the principle of non-contradiction is created eternal truth. As such, it could be applied even to God but only if we understand him as the most perfect being. The very essence of God, that is absolute power i.e. causa sui is beyond the range of this principle, because absolute power as the essence of God is the realm of absolute identity between His essence and His existence. Since man can think only in accordance with the principle of non-contradiction, even God's infinite power he must understand with regard to that principle. Nevertheless, since the principle of non-contradiction is not applicable on God's absolute identity, its absence man understands as its negation, and because of that, that identity appears to him as self-contradictory. In the end, it is shown a (partial) lack of ground of Lebniz's critique of Descartes concerning ontological argument.