Mathematics

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mathematics

Title text: Written after enjoying Francis Su's new book, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, which slightly changed my view about this type of question.

Votey

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Math is useful or whatever, but it can't teach us ethics. It can't teach us what the good life is.

True.

The study of math only teaches you patience, humility, beauty, skepticism, forbearance, good reasoning, peace, wonder, joy, the nature of reality, and how to make ethical decisions once you've accepted a small number of basic principles.

But yeah, you have to figure out for yourself that murder is bad or whatever

I thought you said you learned humility.

I said I was taught humility.

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I'd explain humility to you but it's too complicated. The

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