By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What is the aim of life?
The aim of life is twofold: to create the concrete and to consummate it—he 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
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