The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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Whatis 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

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