Puerto Rico, 2016

OSJ tree — What a strange and wonderful tree, on a street in Old San Juan!

Beach, Isla Verde — Beautiful beach in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico

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“Why Can People Dislike Themselves?”

The answer to this question, a huge one in everyone’s life, is in this new issue of T he Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. As editor Ellen Reiss writes: “Eli Siegel is the philosopher who understood the self, in its individuality and its inclusiveness, its grandeur and its lowness.” This is so about selves in 2021, as it’s been about selves in every year in human history. You can learn about the cause of self-dislike here. And you can learn, too, what can end that painful feeling and make for our honestly liking ourselves because of how we see the world. How grateful am I for learning this? I describe some of my feeling in papers published on this site.

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