摘要:老子法律思想是汉初统治者在当时特定的历史环境下选择的立法指导思想，它以“道法自然，无为而治”为核心，在政治上主张约法省禁、以德化民，经济上轻徭薄赋、与民休息。本文通过对老子法律思想内涵的探讨，重点分析了老子法律思想对汉初立法的影响表现，进而探讨其影响的成因，并在此基础上对老子法律思想对汉初立法影响的价值进行了分析，以更好把握老子法律思想对汉初立法的影响。

关键词：老子；法律思想；汉初；立法

Abstract:Laozi’s legal thought was selected as the legal guiding legacy by rulers at the beginning of Han dynasty under the particular historical circumstance. This thought has a core of following the principle of the Nature and managing things in a simple and easy way.In terms of politics, Laozi’s legal thought claims to simplify the law , relax the degree of penalization and transform people by virtue, while to reduce corvee and taxes and give people peace and security in economics. In this paper, the law of the ideological content of I, I focused on analyzing the legal thinking of the early Han Dynasty legislation affect performance and thus to explore the causes of its influence, and on this basis I legal thinking on the effect of legislation on the early Han Dynasty analysis of the value of in order to better grasp the legal thinking of the early Han Dynasty I legislation.

Key words: laozi；Legal Thought；The early Han Dynasty；Legislative

　　　老子法律思想是当时特定历史条件下的产物，它促进了汉初封建法制的建立和西汉经济的恢复、发展及政权的巩固。但是，老子法律思想缺乏与君主专制集权的发展和神化趋势相适应的因素，因此其政治的短命也就不可避免了。从中国古代社会到当今社会，老子法律思想不断传承发展，它对后世的影响是全面而深刻的，不只是对汉初的立法起到指导作用，即使是今天，我们国家的管理者在治理国家的时候，也可以从老子“道法自然”“简约理念”等法律思想中获得某些借鉴，特别是对现在我国在发展中提倡和谐理念，人与自然和谐相处、人与社会和谐相处，更有着积极的意义。