Gary's criticism of EJ

[Rebing@t-online.de (Rebing)]

Gary, it seems to me that you are at odds with EJ about a short life being fulfilled in 
spite of its brevity because his Erkenntnisinteresse, his motive for asking his questions 
and probing the answers, is different from yours. He seeks meaning and sense in death, you 
refuse to see meaning anywhere else than in the visible achievements a human being brings 
about during his lifetime. Another important factor determining EJ's Erkenntnisinteresse 
might be his sheer age. It is old men who tend to say, "Wie es auch sei, das Leben, es ist 
gut", as Goethe wrote when he was 74, and he meant life in general, not only his own, which 
was, certainly by your criteria, a fulfilled one even before he wrote those lines. Günter R.