Domain-based, or policy-oriented, research is essentially interdisciplinary and the crossing of new boundaries and the creation of new syntheses may advance both knowledge and human betterment.
The import of formalism can best be seen by noting what it was reacting against: art as representation, art as expression, art as a vehicle of truth or knowledge or moral betterment or social improvement.
Do you remember placing your right hand on a Bible and swearing to "use your knowledge for the betterment of society and the improvement of the legal system?" Do you remember repeating the words: "I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed?" Have these words gotten lost in the many years of a shiny, illustrious career?
Does it ignore opportunities for the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of humankind?
The distinctive trait of prudent people is their ability to turn difficulties into opportunities of knowledge and moral betterment (De utilitate, OO, II, 11a).
Many African countries have long sent their best students abroad for graduate study in the hope, often futile, that they would return and use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of their native lands.
My dream is that 40 years from now, the terrible carnage now wracking the Middle East will give way to building and utilizing knowledge for the betterment of humankind.
It has been well acknowledged in Indian literature that poor households are socially marginalised, and indeed in many cases detached from the social network, which is one of the powerful tools for disseminating knowledge about the betterment of health among the marginalised sections of society.
Mrs. March, mother to the four beloved March girls, passes along her indelible spirit and her life-long quest for knowledge and self-betterment to her daughters.
The great thing about this is, it shows the Internet being used for what it should always have been used for: spreading knowledge and ideas for he betterment of society.
