ABSTRACT
Personalist philosophy of history is concerned with the knower. History as the locus of philosophical reflection is perfectly suited to this task by which the past itself becomes more clearly connected with moral life. The moral obligations to past actors stand therefore not as subjection to them or to history but as operators of a moral agency worthy of the name. The resumption of moral responsibility, transforming mere memory, is history unleashed. Persons as moral agents, rather than as any object of cognition, have the means and the power to build moral life. The danger of losing the impression of freedom is the reason we cannot rest content at stopping somewhere short of constituting philosophy of history around a moral ideal. The academic field of the philosophy of history suffers very severely from the generally marginal allowance for most deep interdisciplinarity.
