Hegel and Savigny: the formation of the idea of historicism in law
The idea of historicism in law was first introduced in the concepts of GVF. Hegel and K. Savigny. Only here the historical process of law is interpreted not simply as a prerequisite for its formation, but as an internal content of the law itself. The specificity of the doctrine of the unity of the universal and the special in history enabled Hegel to reveal the dialectic of the absolute value principle of law and historically changeable in law. In contrast, Savigny was forced to introduce into the theory of law an irrational element - the concept of «people's spirit.»