道德形上学就是要用哲学的方法回答道德和道德生活之于人的普遍意义问题,在我们生活的经验世界中进一步追问并回答“道德之于人如何可能”这一形上主题。儒家的道德形上学有丰富的内容。本文认为,“人禽之别”是儒家道德形上学的论述元点,是儒家伦理的元命题;“天人合德”是儒 Ethical metaphysics is to use philosophical methods to answer the question of the universal meaning of moral and moral life to human beings and ask further in the empirical world of our life and answer the basic theme of “How can morality be possible to human beings?” Confucian moral metaphysics is rich in content. This article argues that the distinction between humans and birds is the metaphorical point of Confucian moral metaphysics and the meta proposition of Confucian ethics.