Legality和Legtimacy两个词的翻译是混乱的。
第四篇《民主的法治国家的前政治基础》
参考自英译版，如果英文版没有译错的话哈
拿几处来对比就明白了
p78
“——为什么民主的程序必须被视为合法的执行权力的程序，并且”
“why the democratic process counts as a procedure of legitimate lawmaking; and....”
p79
“而是把它理解为一种从合法性中产生正当性的方法的话，……”
“we understand the democratic procedure as a method by which legitimacy is generated from legality,”
p80
“（2）我想从如下论点出发进一步展开：自由国家的宪法的合法性的主张是自足的，即可以从独立于宗教和形而上学的认识上的材料来展开论证。”
(2) In what follows, I assume that the constitution of the liberal state can satisfy its need for legitimation in a modest way by drawing on the cognitive resources of a set of arguments that are independent of religious or metaphysical traditions.
在第一处，legitimate被译为了“合法的”；在第二处legitimacy被译为了“正当性”，legality被译为了“合法性”；第三处，legitmation又被译为了“合法性”（ps legitimation是表示趋向的名词，不应当叫“……性”而叫“……化”）。
英译译者简历，感觉挺硬朗的哈。
Ciaran Cronin was born in Dublin in 1961. At university he studied Philosophy (specialising in contemporary continental philosophy, German moral philosophy and political philosophy) in Ireland, Belgium and Germany. After gaining a PhD at the Northwestern University in Illinois, USA (with a dissertation on the moral philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jürgen Habermas) he taught philosophy at Grinnell College, Iowa (1991-94) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2003). Since 2004 he has worked as a freelance translator based in Berlin and since 2008 as 'chercheur associé' at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
参考自英译版，如果英文版没有译错的话哈
拿几处来对比就明白了
p78
“——为什么民主的程序必须被视为合法的执行权力的程序，并且”
“why the democratic process counts as a procedure of legitimate lawmaking; and....”
p79
“而是把它理解为一种从合法性中产生正当性的方法的话，……”
“we understand the democratic procedure as a method by which legitimacy is generated from legality,”
p80
“（2）我想从如下论点出发进一步展开：自由国家的宪法的合法性的主张是自足的，即可以从独立于宗教和形而上学的认识上的材料来展开论证。”
(2) In what follows, I assume that the constitution of the liberal state can satisfy its need for legitimation in a modest way by drawing on the cognitive resources of a set of arguments that are independent of religious or metaphysical traditions.
在第一处，legitimate被译为了“合法的”；在第二处legitimacy被译为了“正当性”，legality被译为了“合法性”；第三处，legitmation又被译为了“合法性”（ps legitimation是表示趋向的名词，不应当叫“……性”而叫“……化”）。
英译译者简历，感觉挺硬朗的哈。
Ciaran Cronin was born in Dublin in 1961. At university he studied Philosophy (specialising in contemporary continental philosophy, German moral philosophy and political philosophy) in Ireland, Belgium and Germany. After gaining a PhD at the Northwestern University in Illinois, USA (with a dissertation on the moral philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jürgen Habermas) he taught philosophy at Grinnell College, Iowa (1991-94) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2003). Since 2004 he has worked as a freelance translator based in Berlin and since 2008 as 'chercheur associé' at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
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