Do you think?
Do you believe?
You might think that you believe, but then I think there’s a certain doubt in what you think you believe.
What are you doing when you believe?
If you believe what you think, then I think that brings into question what you’re thinking.
Why are you believing what you think?
The Unthinkable Domain of Your World
Our typical understanding of philosophy can be centered by not reflecting upon the simple conditions outlined by thought and belief. What I call “conventional philosophy” is really just another activity, no different than laying a cement driveway, or pondering whether I want white wine or red wine. Reflection, what I believe I am thinking about, which is to say, that I’m reflecting upon, the choice that I believe that I’m considering to come to some sort of conclusion about what I’m supposed to do, is more likely just an automatic act of ideological dimensions than what I think I believe about what I am doing. The conclusion about my situation regularly has only the basis of the parameters of my thoughts and belief.
Criticism and Mental Health
Conventional philosophy is about being critical of the world of ideas in which I find myself. Belief is then another ideological condition that informs me to what I’m supposed to do with this world of ideas, what subject I’m supposed to address in order to develop an identity outside of what I am doing. It is another subject of these ideas informing the condition of my world.
Psychology is that name this condition of ideas and the organization thereof to be proper.
Proper is not equivalent healthy.
This is so much the case that even as I might iterate this fact of my existence for others to appreciate and consider, more often than not, the reader will come to certain conclusions; in particular, perhaps often, that I’m saying something about some thing that I’m supposed to argue against, or saying something to the effect that I am caught inevitably within that situation.
So I say that issue is the basis of mental health.
It is not that I am having some sort of philosophy of mental health, but indeed mental health philosophy is the epistemological reason why I’m doing anything at all. Mental health is the entirety of what I believe and think accounted for. Any change in terms upon the topic reiterates these basic ontological material forms.
The conventional philosophical description, however I want to lay it out in terms, is ultimately encompassed, described, and accounted for by mental health philosophy.
