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Articles in the News about Aesthetic Realism

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to my website, where you can read articles on many different subjects, all based on what I have learned from Aesthetic Realism, including, very much, how peace can be in the Middle East.  Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy founded by the great American poet and critic Eli Siegel.  Study of it made my life truly happy and I want every person to know the new, true, and just way of seeing the world and people that it teaches.  Aesthetic Realism is based on these principles by Eli Siegel: 

One, Man's greatest, deepest desire is to like the world honestly. Two, The one way to like the world honestly, not as a conquest of one's own, is to see the world as the aesthetic oneness of opposites.  Three, The greatest danger or temptation of man is to get a false importance or glory from the lessening of things not himself; which lessening is Contempt.

Ruth Oron 

Using a Mother's Death to See Meaning in the WorldFood: Can We Be Sensible About It? by Ruth Oron, published in The Dayton Weekly, Dayton, OH on June 28-July 5, 2007

...There is a great need for education about nutrition and affordable and healthy food has to be available for all people....

The great pleasure in eating and the turmoil surrounding food is all over America and the question is: Can a person be really sensible about food?  Is there a way of seeing food as such that can make one proud...  Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Using a Mother's Death to See Meaning in the WorldThe Answer to the Crisis in the Middle East by Ruth Oron, published in The Palladium Times, Oswego, New York on July 31, 2006

"Eli Siegel, founder, defined the unjust contempt that causes wars and explained its danger.... For decades, peace negotiations have failed for lack of this knowledge. It may be hard to look at, but the fact is that people have preferred to drop bombs, fire rockets and endure terror rather than grant full reality to other human beings. I learned what it means to do so from the philosophy Aesthetic Realism."   Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Using a Mother's Death to See Meaning in the WorldUsing a Mother's Death to See Meaning in the World by Ruth Oron and Ann Richards, published in The Palladium Times, Oswego, New York on August 23, 2004

"This February a Christian woman in Oswego, New York, and a Jewish woman in Ramat Hashofet, a kibbutz in Israel, died. They were both 91 years of age. Lola McGough and Leah Shazar were our dear mothers." Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Aesthetic Realism & Mideast Terror: ButtonContempt Must Be Studied for Mideast Terror to End!  From The Rock Island Argus, April 28, 2002.  By Ruth Oron, Harriet Bernstein, Zehava Fishman, Avi Gvili, Zvia Ratz, Rose Levy, Leah Shazar

"As we grieve for our innocent countrymen killed as a result of horrible suicide bombings, more than ever we feel the urgency of asking with courage and honesty. Did 35 years of dominating over the Palestinian people, humiliating them, being oblivious and cold to their feelings, encourage hopelessness, fury, and a desire for revenge? ... As we have written before—there is a solution to this vicious cycle of contempt!" Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Mother & Daughter: ButtonAn Open Letter from an Israeli Mother and Daughter by Ruth Oron and Leah Shazar published in the New York Beacon, New York, NY (2/6/02) Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Mother & Daughter: Button"The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method and Its Success!" published in the Tennessee Tribune January 15-21, 2004

"At this time of crisis in our schools--which I see first hand in my work at the New York City Department of Education--I'm very glad to tell you about an interview with Lauren Phillips, second grade teacher in East Harlem, New York". Arrow: Click Here For Full Article READ ARTICLE

Meanwhile, you can find out more about Aesthetic Realism by visiting the Aesthetic Realism Foundation website. Lectures by Mr. Siegel are online in the Eli Siegel Collection website.
 

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