Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose writings shaped science, philosophy, and art for centuries. A student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded the Lyceum in Athens and the Aristotelian tradition of systematic inquiry. His works in logic, ethics, politics, biology, and aesthetics became cornerstones of Western thought. Medieval scholars revered him as “The Philosopher,” and his influence persisted until modern science displaced parts of his natural philosophy. Today, Aristotle’s ideas on virtue, form, and causality still resonate in contemporary philosophy and theory.

“Excerpts from a project on Trees and Beasts” Denise Hoffman Brandt© Denise Hoffman What do we actually mean when we talk about nature? As a professor in a discipline that since the early 1970s has, mostly, claimed to practice “design with nature”—referencing Ian McHarg’s book (1969) of that title—that’s a question I have often asked. […]

In the conversation with the landscape architecture professor, artist and writer Denise Hoffman Brandt, we speak about the morality issues attached to “doing good” while debunking Ian McHarg’s problematic position in Design with Nature. In the conversation, Brandt points out how our assumptions about nature shape our actions, why stewardship is problematic and what landscape […]

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