中西方对个人主义的态度大相径庭,主要源于东西方对个人主义的理解不尽相同,而个人主义在东西方的兴起发展有很大差异。本文首先追溯了西方几个主要文化发展历史时期对个人主义发展的影响,从而更好了解西方孕育个人主义的文化土壤及发展渊源。同时简单回顾了影响中国社会生活上千年的儒学对个人这一概念的阐释及对个人理念可能产生的影响,并对东西方的个人主义作了简单的比较。 China and the West have very different attitudes toward individualism, mainly due to the different understanding of individualism between East and West, and the very different development and development of individualism between East and West. This paper first traces the impact of several major Western cultural development history on the development of individualism, so as to better understand the cultural soil and development sources of Western individualism. At the same time, it simply reviews the interpretation of the concept of individual and the possible influence on personal idea by Confucianism, which affects thousands of years in Chinese social life, and makes a simple comparison of East-West individualism.