本文首先论述了中国民主制度从民本、民权到民主的历程,然后论述了西方民主制度的进程,最后通过对中西民主进程的比较得出结论:中西民主制度历程的差异实质是由地理环境造成的团体本位主义和个人本位主义的不同,义务本位思想与权利本位思想的不同,专制主义与民主主义的差异。 This article first discusses the course of the Chinese democracy from the people-based, civil rights to democracy, and then discusses the process of the Western democratic system. Finally, through the comparison of the democratic process in China and the West, the author concludes that the difference of the course of democracy between China and the West is essentially caused by the geographical environment The difference between group-based and individual-based, the difference between the obligation-based thought and the rights-based thought, and the difference between authoritarianism and democracy.