Research Agenda for Philosophical Theory: The Next Two Months

In contemporary academia and public discourse, no term has been as abused, distorted, or thoroughly subverted as "Critical Thinking."

If you step into a modern university classroom or open those jargon-filled academic journals, you will find that their version of "criticism" is no longer the rigorous excision of logical fallacies found in Socrates or Kant, nor is it an objective pursuit of truth. On the contrary, it has mutated into an ideological weapon of Polylogism—a form of Destructionism specifically designed to attack logic itself and dismantle the rational foundations of Western civilization.

I have had enough of this intellectual fraud.

This is not merely an economic issue; it is "The Revolt Against Reason." It is a profound epistemological crisis.

To thoroughly clarify how this mutation occurred, and to expose the despicable tactics that swap "logical problems" for "psychological pathologies," I have decided that after finishing Mises' remaining three volumes of essays, I will temporarily withdraw from pure economics to undertake a 1-2 month campaign of conceptual excavation and reckoning.

I have largely exhausted the works of the Austrian School; aside from scattered papers and the history of economic thought, there is no pressing theoretical ground left for me to cover there. However, philosophical theory is precisely what our age lacks. I intend to delve into the sources of these errors to ensure these fallacies are pulverized from their philosophical bedrock.

The prospective reading list for this campaign is as follows:

1. Reinforcing the Foundation: Recasting Epistemology

The modern Left claims that truth is a "social construct" and logic is "white male hegemony." To sever this nonsense at the root, I must return to the sources of Neo-Kantianism and Phenomenology to demonstrate the apriority and objectivity of logic.

  • Heinrich Rickert:
    • Sämtliche Werke Band 1: Zur Lehre von der Definition. Das Eine, die Einheit und die Eins. Die Logik des Prädikats und das Problem der Ontologie
      (Collected Works Vol 1: On the Theory of Definition; The One, Unity, and Oneness; The Logic of the Predicate and the Problem of Ontology)
    • Sämtliche Werke Band 2: Der Gegenstand der Erkenntnis (Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Teil 1)
      (Collected Works Vol 2: The Object of Knowledge – Historical-Critical Edition Part 1)
    • Sämtliche Werke Band 3.1 & 3.2: Die Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung
      (Collected Works Vol 3: The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science)
    • Kulturwissenschaft und Naturwissenschaft
      (Cultural Science and Natural Science)
  • Edmund Husserl:
    • Logische Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations) Vol 1 & 2

2. Examining the Source of the Poison: The Grotesque Hybrid of Freud and Marx

Why does modern "Woke" culture refuse to reason with you, accusing you instead of having a "phobia"? Because Herbert Marcuse hybridized Marx's economic determinism with Freud's sexual psychology. This is the true toxic hearth of modern "Critical Theory."

  • Herbert Marcuse:
    • Eros and Civilization
    • Repressive Tolerance
  • Sigmund Freud:
    • Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents)

3. Dismantling the Tactics: The Tyranny of Pathologization

When they cannot refute you logically, they diagnose you as sick. This was the tactic of Soviet psychiatric hospitals, yet it has now become the norm in Western universities.

  • Thomas S. Szasz:
    • The Myth of Mental Illness
  • Stephen R. C. Hicks:
    • Explaining Postmodernism: This is a perfect roadmap showing how anti-rationalism evolved from Rousseau all the way to Foucault. (PS: I have only read parts of Foucault's work...)

The Plan Ahead

Over the next month or two, I will work through this reading list. Some parts contain the intellectual foundations we require, while others represent the targets of our impending critique. I intend to drag those obfuscating so-called "philosophical theories" out into the light, one by one, to clearly identify which intellectual imbeciles (such as Marcuse and his ilk) influenced them, and how they systematically transformed rigorous intellectual training into a tool for political indoctrination.

I will write an extensive essay. This will not be a tepid literature review, but a judicial verdict of logic.

The mask of reason must be torn off; true critical thinking must return.