The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method:
the groundbreaking teaching method for all subjects including the social sciences

Aesthetic Realism, founded by the American philosopher Eli Siegel, explains:

1. “The purpose of education is to like the world through knowing it.”

2. The biggest impediment to learning is the desire to have contempt, to get “an addiion to self through the lessening of something else.”

3. "The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites."

SEE: "The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Brings Out a Student’s Ability to Learn!" (Download the PDF file here.)

"The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As a Teaching Method in Anthropology"

"I use the Aesthetic Realism method so that my students can use anthropology to like the world more, not less. There is no subject that cannot be taught from this point of view....The principles of Aesthetic Realism are true about anthropology." Published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly. > Read more

"Teaching Indian Culture in the US."

How do we combat the desire for contempt, which cripples one's ability to understand or have good will for people of another culture? Published in the India Tribune and other English language Indian journals. > Read more

"What Are Children's Minds Waiting For?"

Includes discussion of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method—and the crucial opposites of restraint and abandon in the Inuit (Eskimo) and ourselves. Published in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known > Read more

A Sampling of Anthropology Classes: "Anthropology Is About You and Everyone" at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

"The Marriage of Anthropology and Sociology"

"Scientific Method and the Opposites"

"The Aesthetic Structure of Society"

"Anthropology and the Everyday"

"The Feelings of People Are Real!"

"What Isn't Anthropology About?"

"Coldness and Warmth in Anthropology"

"Anthropology for the 21st Century"

See Brochure of Courses at Aesthetic Realism Foundation

STUDYING AESTHETIC REALISM

Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel in 1941, is taught in classes, public seminars and presentations, and individual consultations at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City; as well as by speaking engagements nationwide and telephone consultations. The Chairman of Education, Ellen Reiss, teaches the professional classes for Aesthetic Realism associates and consultants which I attend. This study, alive and scholarly, kind and dynamic, is what I was hoping to find in four universities, all of which had their value, of course.