GUILHERME DE OLIVEIRA FREITAS

The first chapter of the Analytics of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason is known for its exposition consisting of definitions, scholia, theorems, corollaries, and problems. The fact that Kant begins the second Critique with an apparently mathematical exposition, specifically with a definition, has prompted questions from those who have read in the Critique of Pure Reason that the method of philosophy should be different from the method of mathematics. In the preface of the second Critique, Kant himself emphasizes that philosophy should not rush into definitions before the complete analysis of the concept. The present research aims to study the status of the exposition carried out by Kant, a study based on the distinctions Kant makes between mathematics and philosophy. To achieve this, it involves, on the one hand, a reconstruction of the problem of the mathematical method in Wolff and, on the other hand, a philosophical interpretation of Kant's text with a focus on the concept of the fact of reason.