Hegel's Philosophy of Right constitutes a watershed in the history of political ideas. Following Norberto Bobbio, Aristotelianism and modern natural law would be the hegemonic political discourses that preceded Hegel; although it is true that David Hume and Adam Smith had already grounded political reflection squarely in the historical and social terrain of human action, and in the concrete of the capitalist economic dynamics of Modernity –which ends up showing the limited of an Aristotle or a Hobbes for the purposes of a political theory of practical utility for modern man–, his philosophical approach was built from an empiricist metaphysics that, in the end, does not integrate classical metaphysics from the pre-Socratics to the Romans in a unitary way. modern, and for the same reason, it is limited both in the ontological field, as well as in the epistemological and political, in order to offer a broad explanatory synthesis that accounts for the complexity and historicity of human action.