Abstract：According to Lawrence Kohlberg‘s theory of moral development, an individual develops three levels of moral consciousness when growing up: pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional. At the last level, a principled and universalist moral consciousness comes into being. Based on the three mutually supporting “homological arguments”, i.e. between ego development and worldview, between ego and group identity, and between (individual) moral consciousness and (social) structure of consciousness of law and morality, Jürgen Habermas “translates” Kohlberg’s theory into a theory of social evolution, thereby laying the sociotheoretical foundation for his late discourse theory of legitimation.
孙国东. “后习俗”的道德意识与商谈合法化——哈贝马斯对科尔伯格理论的社会进化论“转译”[J]. 江苏大学学报（社会科学版）, 2014, 16(4): 1-7.
Sun Guodong. “Post-conventional” Moral Consciousness and Legitimation Through Discourse: Habermas‘s Socio-Evolutionist“Translation” of Kohlberg’s Theory. Journal of Jiangsu University（Social Science Editi, 2014, 16(4): 1-7.
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