余英时先生在其所著《现代儒学论》的“序言”中 ,明确表达了他的学术关怀的“形而下”取向。他说 :“如果用宋儒关于‘形而上’和‘形而下’的划分 ,那么 ,我可以说本书论现代儒家仅限于‘形而下’的部分。”仅限于“形而下”？这仅仅是对研究范围的规定 ,还是另有深意？“形 In his Preface to Modern Confucianism, Yu Yunshi clearly expressed his “metaphysical” orientation of academic concern. He said: “If Song Confucian classification of ’metaphysics’ and ’metaphysics’ is used, then I can say that this book deals with the confines of modern Confucianism only in ’metaphysics’. Is this merely a matter of the scope of the study, or is it otherwise meaningful? ”shape