"In Japan Crash, Time Obsession May Be Culprit" (front page, April 27) includes the view that the Japanese concern for punctual observance of train schedules may be an irrational national obsession.
Jonathan Wolff defends the moderate position that while distributive concerns about bad brute luck are part of what justice is about, that is not the whole story: "Distributive justice should be limited in its application by other egalitarian concerns" (Wolff 1998, 122), for the ideal of justice also includes the view that we should respect one another as equals.
This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated, not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.
It is debatable whether Plato's middle-period metaphysics included the view that forms were, or exhibited, some grander, unalloyed version of some of the properties exhibited by sensible objects.
This category also includes the views that in order to motivate the patient, the doctor could inform (or persuade) the patient, but the decision is the patient's alone.
Mr. Bugden said the culture of the church — with beliefs that include the view that marriage is the highest expression of God's will — had to be taken into account.
The idea of the preexistent divine Logos became the concept of the preexistence of the church, which included the view that the world was created for the sake of the church.
Other thoughts were expressed by player agents in an informal survey, including the view that the commissioner's office crushed the union in the talks for a stronger steroids testing program and held the upper hand for future talks.
It reserved its more serious criticisms for Romania, including the view that Romania had not yet proved itself as a "functioning market economy", a precondition for EU membership.On balance, the commission seems right to have credited Bulgaria with greater progress.
Some of the explanations offered on background included the view that the United States was not worried because it had plans to reopen a rare earth mine in the Southern California desert, and that the European Union was not worried because its companies planned to depend on a mine under construction in Australia.
Under the influence of Athenodorus, former tutor of Octavius, who probably introduced him into the future emperor's circle, he turned toward Stoical philosophy, the precepts of which included the view that one unique principle ceaselessly pervading the whole universe causes all phenomena.
