The objective was to determine the influence of the directed method in the development of the subject of Philosophy and the critical capacity of the students of a higher institution. The type of study was explanatory, with the quasi-experimental design being applied to the experimental group; The parametric statistic used was t Student, demonstrating the effectiveness of the method directed in the development of the Philosophy subject and the critical capacity of the students of higher education, the level of correlation between the directed method and the critical capacity of, 032 and the level of significance of, 711.