By Schubert Ogden
What is the aim of life?
The aim of life is twofold: to create the concrete and to consummate it---the latter by appreciating or enjoying it.
The abstractions of metaphysics are not ends in themselves, but means to wisdom and goodness in achieving this aim.
Inference: metaphysics is to wisdom (which is the objective of philosophy's quest) as means are to end.
1 February 1998; rev. 18 August 2003