Abstract
This text was originally published in 1908, in German, within Simmel's Soziologie - which is considered his major sociological work. Here I offer a translation of it to Portuguese. In the text itself, the author endeavors to depict and investigate three a priori conditions upon which empirical society, as we know it, would be possible. Simmel himself framed the discussion as a theoretical draft. This draft is guided by a chain of positive and negative comparisons between nature according to Kant and society, and tackles (in a non-systematic, but fairly pioneer fashion, considering the epoch's state of the art) many questions that would turn out to be key ones to the social theory yet to come.
Keywords
Georg Simmel; Sociology; Empirical society; Social theory; Neo-kantianism