The Health of the Mind: Rational Empiricism
Thew way people start to care about thinking about things is when how they have been thinking becomes problematic in a way that the conventional manner of problem solving is not working. They don’t have to know that they are caring about all this ‘philosophical’ stuff, and they don’t need to, but it indeed is because of this stuff-of-knowing being ruffled that something of the mind starts to have a sense that something is wrong in a different way that it has been wrong before.
In as much as this kind of thing indeed happens and we call them mental issues, there must be something about what we understand as ‘mental’ or ‘of the mind’ that concerns knowing. If there is no knowing, there is no mind, and any discussion about how this might not be the case is based in an assumption that the mind can know things that are not known, which is a very weird thing that can happen when you think about it – which most people don’t want to think about it.
Nonetheless, we could continue to think that what we assume is not merely assumed but are actual facts, and we would inevitably find that what constitutes these “un-beliefs”, so to speak (its so weird, I don’t even know what we could call it, but ‘un-belief’ seems close), is another assumption that we call reason. Again, reason is assumed common to everyone who is human; even those who might ‘de-humanize’ others nonetheless begin with an assumption of them being human, else they would have no ability to think they were less than human.
So it is, all this reasoning is based in an assumption that the way to know anything that means anything real and reasonable is through a method that at least one philosopher identified in the mid-19th century.
This method is called the either/or.
Mental Health is the New rational Empiricism
Now that we understand the subject of psychology through its contradiction by Mental Health Philosophy, we begin to move knowledge into the future, so the past will be able to be accessed in the present.