I will ignore your juvenile remark about reading Aristotle and speak to what is potentially adult in your post.

I do not define metaphysics as reason breaking through its own limits. No one does. So why should I?

Metaphysicians simply deny the limit. They deny Kant’s insight.

Traditional metaphysics does not identify metaphysical truths with thought thinking itself except when god is so understood.

Most everything that appears in your catalogue of traditional metaphysical themes is not about thought thinking itself.

The “meta” in metaphysics tends to be glossed as thought about beings that are beyond the physical – the transcendent, not transcendental, objects of cognition.

Such thought is what Kant precluded. Kant precluded the traditional metaphysical instinct to think what lies beyond the limits of finite cognition.

Hegel thinks we can engage in infinite thinking. But he does not mean to think the objects that Kant says cannot be thought.

• Alan