KANT’S NOTION OF TIME AND HISTORY

Abstract

The author emphasises the great importance for the break-trough of historic consciencein philosophy, that of Kant’s opinion that the human knowledge is possible only underthe terms of human temporality; nevertheless, he tends to examine the reasons for restriction ofthat insight solely to theoretical sphere and underlines limitations immanent to comprehension oftime as pure inner sense for the establishment of the idea of history. Kant’s subjectivation of timeshows itself as a subjective interpretation of the natural time and as such it is inadequate to humanfree time. That constellation leads to great perplexities in front of which Kant’s philosophyof history capitulated.