disinterestedness

It violated the core of virtue and disinterestedness presumed essential for anyone properly equipped to oversee public affairs.

Matthew Arnold held disinterestedness, with curiosity, to be the properties with which the critic would save culture, by which he meant much more than just literature.

Public confidence in the court’s disinterestedness is the source of its power to defend the Constitution from willful and imprudent majorities, including Senate majorities.

Central to those are the ‘norms’ of science codified in 1942 by sociologist Robert Merton: universalism, disinterestedness, communality and organized scepticism.

Both knew the artistic value of reserve, of disinterestedness.