arguing with Descartes

To say, "I want the perfect dinner party" implies the desire for a concept of a finite experience, since it is something you can have or will to have.

To think of a perfect being also implies finiteness because I cannot have a concept of inifinity (being a supposed element of perfection); because I can grasp the concept of a perfect being, it cannot be finite. (or, is merely my idea what is finite and the content of the idea inifinte? No, because the finite cannot contain the infinite.)

So, Descartes would say that this containment issue implies that the perfect being must exist outside of my idea: there is a God.

But, if something finite cannot contain something infinite, where can this perfect being exist? The universe must either be infinite, exist within an infinite dimension, or else the perfect being cannot be infinite.

If the perfect being is not infinite, then we could in fact draw a list of qualities to describe it, because if we couldn't make such a list that would imply the being was infinite after all.

(Hum class, 2.22.06)