Abstrakt

The article aims to show an important role of time on philosophical grounds. At the same time, difficulties present in philosophical discourse are shown, when one tries to describe and understand a phenomenon of time. In philosophical studies on time, specific questions can be distinguished. This leads to three facets (ontological, psychological, and pistemological) when studying time. These facets are the most basic aspects in which the „time phenomenon” can be seen. Detailing of the studies in the ontological framework allows a creation of its typology. Helpful in doing that are ontological categories of things (substances), events, processes, as well as a new ontological category – in which human becomes an ontical basis of the world. Finally, typology of the ways of describing time because of its ontological status forms a continuum with three characteristic points: 1) realism, 2) arealism, 3) a broad borderline between realism and arealism.