Only when people consider this issue of legitimacy of Chinese philosophy in terms of its form as a discipline rather than in terms of its content, will it really get its own meaning.

当人们不是从中国哲学应有的内容，而是从其作为一门学科所应有的形式出发去讨论合法性问题时，这一问题才真正地获得自己的意义。

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The legitimacy of law lies in the law form itself in Weber Max eyes. However J rgen Habermas argued against the simple differentiation of the study of paradigm of law as "form and substance".

在马克斯·韦伯的形式主义法律观视野中，法的合法性在于法律的形式本身，而哈贝马斯并不赞成对法律范式的研究简单地做“形式”与“实质”的区分。

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While, it should be judge the legitimacy of the official duties in Angle of "Objective said" from form and content aspects.

同时，应当从“客观说”的角度、从形式和内容两个方面对公务的合法性作出判断。

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They apparently anticipate that nothing in the work that they will acquire and show will undercut the legitimacy of their form of rule on any dimension.

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