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The article deals with the brief Methodology of taste that closes the Critique of aesthetic judgment (§ 60), in order to examine the Kantian theory of the aesthetical origin of legal sociability, which allegedly gave rise to the first political body in the ancient Greece. Insofar as both conditions of universal feeling of sympathy and intimate and universal communication are determinants for the sociability appropriate to the man, they constitute, in our opinion, the basis for every future culture of method. Moreover, they show that the manner (Manier) or aesthetical mode of exposure prepares and leads to the culture of a logical method (Methodus), where the unity of discourse depends on universal and objective principles and not merely on subjective feelings. We want to stress especially that the question of method is indissoluble in Kant of a long process of communitarian education concerning social customs, humaniora culture and juridical and political harmony, which gives priority to the interests of men and to the cosmic sense of philosophy with regard to monopolies of schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]