Compared to Schopenhauer, whom I was reading concurrently with much of this, Aristotle is a bore. More a scientist than a philosopher.

I chose this edition because it had many of Aristotle's works all together. Unfortunately, the translations are excessively dry. I would recommend finding a better translation, since the material itself can be pretty dense already.

Aristotle is intriguing for having delved into (and advanced) so many fields. Sure, he wasn't always correct, but he really took a thoughtful approach.

Nicomachean Ethics is impressive in its scope, and is probably the best part to read (by itself, I'd give it four stars). I've definitely been taken over by the idea of habit making virtue.

It would be a little weird to say that I 'read' this. I did not read this from start to finish, but more like how Christians tend to read the Bible starting with the Gospels and branching out, I too started on some of the more notable bits of Aristotle and left the other pages barren. I will not rate the work and I'm marking it as read now because I've owned this book for a long time and it's been a random, constant companion throughout the years. Aristotle always strikes me as one of the deepest wells in thought. I've found him to be the most well-rounded and brilliant among...anyone, haha! I've been attracted to his works for the longest time and cannot connect the dots to when or how that came to be.

Al-Ghazali recognized Aristotle's genius even whilst procaliming him a heretic. There's something about him that can't be measured and so I will leave this ratingless. And words will fall short. He took thought, its many forms, and breathed it new. As the cover says, "The master of those who know." ~Dante

Had a dream of this exact edition and found it in mint condition in the used bookstore today. So mote it be!

Still the best...

I call Aristotle "belligerently" precise, and though not an easy read, he's extremely straightforward. Not a wasted word or sentence, and each sentence depends on reading the prior. Great way to think about things.

If Aristotle had access to a computer he'd have cured cancer and fixed global warming. In all seriousness, it's astonishing how close he was to getting things right about the physical world way back in 300 BC. His take on the less scientific stuff like ethics, politics, art, etc. is right on the money.

The book itself has lots of dry stretches punctuated with potent, little, attention grabbing nuggets of wisdom.

The introduction by McKeon is masterful

I read De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals). From reading this, I come to understand that everything has a purpose and if that purpose is gone, the item will just be a useless lump. The book is "told" by Aristotle and there are no characters. De Partibus Animalium is about what relation the soul has to the parts of animals, how distinctive parts form a distinctive animal, and how Nature concerns the soul, as well as vice versa.
I liked this text. It has certainly aged well, considering Aristotle lived nearly 2000 years ago and this book still gets 5 stars (from me at least). Although the book as a whole was hard to read at points, it was very profound and meaningful to me. My favorite quote from this particular text is probably, "We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful." Reading this reminds me of the ocean. The ocean is deep, both literally and not, and although humans know a lot about the ocean, we know almost nothing about it in comparison to what we don't know, so we theorize. Aristotle, like most philosophizers, does not just come straight to his point. In fact, most of the points Aristotle makes in this book can have more than one meaning, so we theorize about Aristotelian works of literature too, including De Partibus Animalium. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in science or philosophy, and especially if they like both because it was worthwhile and made me think using a new perspective which I found very interesting.

Yowza! A very difficult read. I had to diagram the Prior and Posterior Analytics just to try to grasp how to define a logical argument. That being said, I wish the scientific community would revisit Aristotle. Contrary to their own claims of being somehow the greatest minds, Aristotle was arguably the greatest mind that ever lived. Reading him gives you an appreciation of an intellect second to none. You can see why his philosophy was so pervasive before the modern era.