It has frequently been remarked that Immanuel Kant brought the concept of time into the forefront of philosophic discussion; that much of our preoccupation with time stems from his work. But it is too often forgotten that he had carefully and painstakingly restricted the dimensions of time to the cognitive functioning of the human understanding, that he had denied time applicability to the human self in its exercise of that moral freedom which he regarded as the secured foundation of moral reason.