In this paper, I intend to address the relation between law and violence in Hegel’s early writings. I propose to analyze the development of the concept of “positivity” in Hegel’s Early Theological Writings (with a particular emphasis on the fragments written in Frankfurt and known as “The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate”) in comparison with Hegel’s analysis of ‘Absolute Freedom and Terror’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit. I contend that the concepts of disappearance and terror that Hegel associates with the latter, are two distinct and differentiated moments of what Hegel in his early writings describes as the violence of positivity. In fact, I show that disappearance and terror are the extreme versions, put to the test in their actualiz...