虽然在黑格尔的重要著作《法哲学原理》中明确讨论自然法的文字并不多,但他的法哲学与自然法思想之间有着一种密切的关联。这种关系最明显地表现为他对近代自然法学说所做的批判,在此批判中,既有黑格尔对前人的继承,更有其对前人的超越。黑格尔对自然法的批判,其目标不是要取消或拒斥自然法,而是要使自然法建立在科学的基础上,以回避之前的研究过分地依赖于经验或神秘的猜测的做法。黑格尔通过对自然法理论的批判,找到了自然法的真正出发点,这一出发点本身使得自然法理论中的核心——使自然的、特殊的意志服从属于普遍意志而成为理性立法的目标和标志——得以实现,而正是这一出发点和目标成为使黑格尔得以从自然法过渡到自由意志的关节点。由此,我们可以说,黑格尔的自然法哲学对其传统既是“消解”同时也是“完成”;黑格尔的自然法哲学既是对所有自然法体系的否定,同时也表达了最终的、最完善的自然法系统。通过重构自然法,黑格尔的政治社会和国家学说成为将现代个人自由纳入到普遍正义伦理之中的一种可以接受的、比较完备的现代实践哲学。 Although there are not many texts that explicitly discuss natural law in Hegel’s important book The Principles of Legal Philosophy, there is a close correlation between his jurisprudence and natural law thoughts. This relationship is most obviously manifested in his critique of the theory of modern natural law. In this critique, both Hegel’s succession to his predecessors and his transcendence over his predecessors are more apparent. Hegel’s critique of natural law is not aimed at canceling or rejecting natural law. Rather, he aims to make natural law based on science so as to avoid previous studies that rely excessively on experience or mystical speculation. Hegel, through the critique of the theory of natural law, finds the true starting point of natural law. This starting point itself makes the core of natural law theory - to make natural and special will subordinate to universal will and become the goal of rational legislation and Logo - is achieved, and it is this point of departure and goal that has made Hegel’s point of departure for the transition from natural law to free will. From this we can say that Hegel’s natural law of law is both “digestion” and “completion” of his tradition; Hegel’s natural law philosophy is not only a rejection of all natural law systems, but also an expression of The final, the most perfect natural law system. Through the reconstruction of natural law, Hegel’s political society and state doctrine become an acceptable and relatively complete modern practical philosophy that incorporates modern individual freedom into universal ethics.