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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“Tis a received opinion, that Physicians who deceive their Patients for their Healths sake, and Fathers, who deceive their Children for their Good, are guilty thereby of no Crimes”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Objection XV, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
Hobbes questions whether 'God can upon no account deceive us' holds universally, which Descartes's proof of bodies requires.
Citation: "Tis a received opinion, that Physicians who deceive their Patients for their Healths sake, and Fathers, who deceive their Children for their Good, are guilty thereby of no Crimes" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Objection XV, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q13)
