公民概念发轫于西方,自古希腊城邦政体产生公民概念及至现代公民概念的确立,内涵不断丰富发展,但公民的本质精神始终是公民本身内含的伴随民主价值理念的独立自由、民主平等、权利义务。公民道德是限于政治法律领域之内的,并呈现三个特征:公民道德的主体是独立人格的公民;公民道德是以权利与义务相统一为基础的;公民道德是社会基本道德规范。 The concept of citizen has its origin in the West. The concept of citizen from the ancient Greek city-state polity and the conception of modern citizen have been continuously enriched and developed. However, the essence of citizen has always been the independence and freedom, democracy and equality, rights and obligations . Civic morality is confined to the field of politics and law, and presents three characteristics: the main body of civic morality is the citizen of independent personality; civic morality is based on the unification of rights and obligations; civic morality is the basic social morality.