Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:31:27 +0200
Subject: M-G: Help identify a quote


Hello,

We (me and a couple of co-students) are trying to trace the origins of the
following quote. We think it is propably a Marxian quote but there was also
a claim that it is Weber. We may all be mistaken :)
I have tried feeding key words to the csf.collorado.edu archives but I had
no luck...
Here goes:

[Translated from Greek]
"When I say that something is to my liking I phrase judgements which may
 seem to express appreciations, but deep inside they are just empirical.
 They inform about our way of behaviour towards certain objects. [...]
 These preferences are facts like the gravity of bodies or the elasticity
 of gasses. Such judgements do not refair to the innate value of objects
 but depend on the subject"

I am sorry if I violate any list netiquete
Please e-mail me any hint you may have at:
akastr-AT-leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
as I am not a member of this list.

Thank you in advance,

Thanos Kastritis



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