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Legitimacy: Legitimacy is the belief that a rule, institution, or leader has the right to govern. It is a judgment by an individual about the rightfulness of a hierarchy. See also Law, Laws, Rights, Society, State, Justice, Democracy.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jürgen Habermas on Legitimacy - Dictionary of Arguments

IV 279
Legitimation/Habermas: Social integrative force has the political power only to the extent that the disposal of sanctions is not based on naked repression, but on the authority of an office that is itself anchored in a legal system. Therefore, laws require the intersubjective recognition of the citizens.
>Authority
, >Power, >Governance, >Society, >State.
IV 280
Culture/Habermas: This increases the task of culture to justify why the existing political order deserves recognition.
Myths/Habermas: while mythical narratives interpret a ritual practice and make it understandable, but are themselves part of this practice, the religious and metaphysical worldviews of prophetic origin have the form of intellectually editable doctrines that explain and justify an existing order of rule within the framework of the world order they explicate.(1)
>Myth.
IV 457
Legitimacy/Organization/Habermas: Organizations must be able to cover their own legitimation needs.
>Organization/Habermas, >Institutions.


1.S.N.Eisenstadt Cultural Traditions and Political Dynamics: the Origins and Modes of Ideological Politics, Brit. J. Soc, 32, 1981, p. 155ff.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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