WHEN?

[azirtsed]

if philosophy starts with wonder where does philosophy ends?

 

[Prodigal_Son]

if philosophy starts with wonder where does philosophy ends?

With knowing fully, just as we are fully known. (See 2 Corinthians).

 

[warpspeedpetey]

if philosophy starts with wonder where does philosophy ends?

with truth, which is G-d.

 

[Fran65]

Philosophy ends when you pick up a red hot poker and threaten your interlocutor with it!

It may be an embellished story of the argument between Wittgenstein (the brandisher) and Karl Popper (the intended ‘victim’?) but it is entertaining!

 

[geometer]

Western philosophy ended completely when they decided that the map is the territory.

 

[Katholish]

Philosophy is the love and pursuit of wisdom. Thus, wisdom is its end. When I say “end” however, I don’t mean a completion in time, in this life, philosophy does not end, it is only fully completed in the Beatific Vision when truth Itself is directly beheld.

 

[Areopagite]

Thomas and Aristotle says that wisdom is knowing first causes. There are different kinds of first causes, like Material Cause, Formal Cause, Efficient Cause, and Final Cause. Each of those have proximate and remote causes, the latter of which are more “first.” But really, all these causes come from the foremost first cause, which is God. Understanding natural theology, therefore, is therefore the ultimate end of philosophy. You could also say Metaphysics is the ultimate end as well, as Being is the foremost principle of everything. Anything that is a being, however, comes from God. Natural theology, it is often put, is a subset of special metaphysics. Now, you could also expand the meaning of philosophy from just natural wisdom to all wisdom. Divine revelation is a wisdom that gives us more possible knowledge of God, and that studying such knowledge can be done by philosophy as well (taken in philosophy’s broader sense). Natural wisdom, additionally, assists in understanding supernatural wisdom. So, you could say that not only natural theology is the end of philosophy, but theology in general, whether it’s natural and/or supernatural. God. It’s God. That’s what it’s all about.

 

[johngh]

Essentially the ultimate answer to philosophy is God. I basically think of philosophy as one of the ways God gave us to learn more about Him and understand him. The other rational way to this end is science, and then of course there is the more emotional ways of knowing like religious experience, etc.

 

[Socrates4Jesus]

with truth, which is G-d.

Or Wisdom.