As the authors say: "Our plan seeks justice by rooting it in capitalism's pre-eminent value: the importance of private property.
Instead, in American Textile Manufacturers Institute v. Donovan, the court handed the administration a stinging rebuke by ruling that the statute at issue, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, made worker safety a "pre-eminent value" and did not permit a cost-benefit analysis.
Where "international society" refers to the society of states, as Walzer seems often to mean, then it is not surprising that such states hold their survival as a pre-eminent value, but non-state agents may understandably have different priorities.
That does not make them rebels: respect for elders, for religious duty and for maintaining family bonds remain pre-eminent values, and premarital sex is generally out of the question.
The need for a college degree has never been more eminent; its value to students and employers alike never more emergent.
If this principle is correct, and if God is conceived as the eminent embodiment of value and supremely worshipful being, then God must be conceived not in monopolar terms but as dipolar, exemplifying the admirable forms of both pairs of metaphysical contrasts.
Ordinarily, land does not change hands in an eminent domain proceeding until a value is set by a court.
But if many different and at times conflicting considerations are relevant in moral questions – as Greene came to accept – how can any single value be pre-eminent?
In his Harvard doctoral dissertation (1923), Hartshorne argues for the existence of a God that is the eminent exemplification of relational and social values.
With such skills, US workers and industries can remain pre-eminent in innovation, cost-efficiency, and value.
In July the city wrote to the holders of 624 mortgages asking to purchase the debt at 80% of market value and threatening to invoke eminent domain if it did not obtain satisfaction.
