Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:16:49 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: Help identify a quote


Hello Thanos,

On the quote you asked for help to identify, a guess:

I've read quite a number of writings by Marx, none by Weber.
I cannot identify the quote. But its whole tone strikes me
as absolutely idealist and non-Marxian. I'm willing to wager
a Swedish crown it's from Weber, if from any of those two.

Rolf M.


>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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