This dissertation seeks to analyze how the concepts "method" and "metaphysics" arise in
writings by Immanuel Kant published between the years 1747 and 1756.
it presents itself as a study of Kant's work that is both historical and systematic,
involving an understanding of the works and authors who made up the main references
for Kant on the various issues involved in these writings. starting from a position
interpretive that seeks to carry out a history of Kantian concepts with the intention of
understand how their mode of action may have developed, the analysis of
texts as one of the fundamental bases of the research, so that it is intended to present a
balance between the historical contextualization of concepts and their formation in writings, that is,
between the diachronic and synchronic levels of understanding of Kantian concepts. They are
analyzed, in special detail, the writings Thoughts on the true estimation of
Living Forces (1747), Universal Natural History (1755), New Elucidation (1755) and
Physical Monadology (1756), but other writings from the period, reflections and
unpublished texts. Genetic analysis is also used with special emphasis on
German metaphysical tradition (Wolff, Crusius, Bilfinger, Baumgarten, etc.) and in natural philosophy
European (Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Maupertuis, Buffon etc.), which allow a
historical analysis of the Kantian concepts that encompasses, therefore, the systematic and
history required.