![]() ![]() The reasoning is similar for other opposites. Freedom at one with order is what we see in an electron, the solar system, a tree whose leaves are shaking in a summer breeze. So a good poem represents the structure of the world: freedom and order made one. Logic is order, passion accentuates freedom. Siegel explains that beauty “is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality.” A good poem, for instance, is both logical and passionate at once. Since reality, which can be defined as “everything that begins where your fingertips end," is made in a beautiful way it "can be liked honestly." Īesthetic Realism is based on the idea that reality, or the world, has a structure that is beautiful- like the structure of a successful poem or painting. Aesthetic Realism proponents say that their critics are attempting to smear a benevolent, scientific philosophy that is beneficial to humanity. ![]() Several critics allege that, while many of Siegel's ideas have merit, the Aesthetic Realists comprise a cult. The philosophy is taught at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City. They use the Aesthetic Realism principles to analyze and teach a wide variety of topics, including classes in poetry, anthropology, art, music, and marriage. They who promoted it as a way for gays and lesbians to stop being homosexual (1971 to 1990), and still view it as the answer to poverty and racism. Students of Aesthetic Realism say it encourages exactness, kindness, and creativity. * The desire to have contempt-that is, to lessen the meaning of things in order to see one's self as superior-causes unhappiness and even insanity. ![]() * Everyone's deepest desire is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis. * Beauty in art is the making one of opposites, such as order and freedom, logic and passion, strength and grace. Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy of aesthetics founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel in 1941. ![]()
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