Abstract: Kant's view of history not only carries the distinctive priori characteristics of his critical philosophy, but also has dialectical and practical connotations; the latter eases the “metaphysical” traits of his critical philosophy and serves as a prelude to the dialectical thinking of German classical philosophy. Kant’s philosophy of history can be constructed from three perspectives: its temporality essence, dialectical core and practical destination. The temporality consists microscopically in continuous time segment of people’s special experiential actions, and macroscopically in the whole time or the whole world being constituted by all such empirical phenomena and continuous time periods. His dialectical nature mainly lies in his idea of human nature’s unsocial sociability, the inherently contradictory human nature of Kant’s concept, and it is the fundamental driving force for the development of human nature and morality in the historical development concept. His practical destination of historical philosophy must be reflected from two points: political community and ethical community. Political community or permanent peace depends on virtuous politicians’ consciousness of performing their legal obligations, and Kant’s viewpoint on the compatibility of morality (philosophy) and politics has inherited to some extent the politics problem consciousness and the way of thinking from Plato and Aristotle.

Key words: Kant, history, time, dialectic, practice, permanent peace