The viewpoint that intellectuals are characterized by embodying "social conscience" and bearing the weight of humanity values is a representative answer to that question.

It proves that Shakespeare expressed the social improvement thought of kindness overcoming crime, love overcoming hate at his old age’s writing.

On Chen Du-xiu's Ideas about Social Reform

Although they each lived in societies two thousand years apart, both have many similarities regarding social background and thoughts on social reformation.

The Journal of the Association publicized female liberation thoughts from two aspects: females and political revolution and social reform,which had positive function for social reform in China.

This article analyses the thoughts of academic freedom in the Brubacher s "On the Philosophy of Higher Education",and thinks that university should have the critical consciousness and critical character,but its critical character is the result of the academic freedom of the university and the role of intelligentsia as the social conscience.