Full Idea
Aporia 4: Is the task of metaphysics only to investigate the (primary) beings or also to investigate the common characteristics of the (primary) beings?
Gist of Idea
Aporia 4: Does metaphysics just investigate pure being, or also the characteristics of being?
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0997a25-34) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 3.4
Book Reference
Politis,Vasilis: 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics' [Routledge 2004], p.84
A Reaction
Politis points out that metaphysics would then be in danger of collapsing into all sorts of special sciences.