Full Idea
Aporia 10: Are the principles of perishable and imperishable things the same, or different?
Gist of Idea
Aporia 10: Do perishables and imperishables have the same principle?
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1000a05-1001a03) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 3.4
Book Reference
Politis,Vasilis: 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics' [Routledge 2004], p.87
A Reaction
Locke proposed that having a 'life' was an essential distinction between these two, but this has been rather undermined by modern biochemistry. Aristotle wants to know if nature is a unity.