He is plain about the moral mathematics: "My life hurts.
He asked the Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell to perform inside a subway station at rush hour, and Mr. Bell obliged, enabling an essay about art, context, perception and "the moral mathematics of the moment".
What's the moral mathematics of the moment?
In order to obtain a general concept valid for all disciplines, he takes examples from various sciences: metaphysics, morals, physics, mathematics, and logic.
Mike was born at a very young age to parents who valued morals and mathematics.
In 1724 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and mathematics; but his association with Wolff, who was expelled from Halle in 1723, led to charges of atheism against him, and he was removed from his teaching positions.
In like manner, moral standards, logic, mathematics, principles of statistical inference, or English grammar, though all properly applied in cases, are not themselves the law, for legal organs have applicative but not creative power over them.
In his article "Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge," he concludes that "there may be no epistemological ground on which to be a moral antirealist and a mathematical realist".
Sentences in mathematics, morals, comedy, chemistry, politics, and gastronomy may be true in different ways, if and when they are ever true.
And yet in the next paragraph he allowed that he did not "cease to value the exercises done in the schools" (6:5), for languages, fables, oratory, poetry, mathematics, morals, theology, and philosophy all had their value, as did jurisprudence, medicine, and the other sciences (including engineering), which serve as professions and which one might study after attending a school such as La Flèche.
He was also a wide-ranging thinker with interests in religion (which were fundamental to his philosophical motivations), the psychology of vision, mathematics, physics, morals, economics, and medicine.
