The establishment of universal history requires to be understood what time is. Time is the transformation of the future into past by the choices in the present. History should be grounded on that understanding of historical time, which would include the present and future rather than only the past.

History refers to the past in tradition, i.e. to a limited and finite part of time, which is past. Thus history refers immediately both to time and more exactly to the past. •What is past can be even neglected speaking of the history of anything as some genus. Universal history can be understood as that genus.

History as the ontology of the past time turns out to be a set of histories. In fact, all entities such as states, nations, civilizations and all the rest is unified by their common present and future and distinguished by unique and single past. All this does not allow of other universal viewpoint than the logical one as in Hegel.