Our research aims to understand J.G. Herder's philosophy of history by analyzing two central works that focus on the history of the world, in order to highlight the main Herderian concepts that influenced later philosophy. We will mainly analyze the work Also a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Mankind published in 1774, and some books from the Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit, which began to be published in 1784, in order to map the continuities in his thinking in the passage from his youthful work to his mature work in his considerations on history and the reverberations that its configuration generates. To do this, we will need to highlight the author's own hermeneutics, which is a tool for analyzing the past, an interdisciplinary method
that combines the analysis of language and empirical data in the constitution of his philosophy of history. In this way, we can make it clear what position our author takes in delineating what man would be at a time when the life sciences were debating his position in history and also in the chain of beings.