Chapter 3: Logics and Formal Ethics in Karl Menger

Karl Menger’s aim as a scholar was to find a new kind of logic to be applied to social sciences (Menger, 1979). As a mathematician, he focused his attention on finding whether the building of social order can be described from a formalistic point of view. This chapter deals with his contributes to find which kind of logic — able to include uncertainty — is used by individual and by social groups when cohesive aggregations are formed in order to get a formal way to describe ethics…