The Delphic Podcasts by Michael R D James Ricoeur Time and Narrative vol 3 S 12 e 20

Refiguring Time may be what Historical writing is doing to everyday experience but it retains the before-after structure necessary to be subject to the principles of noncontradiction and sufficient reason. The facts of History are not, then, a matter of interpretation but rather amongst the necessary conditions of the knowledge bearing activity of History. The Kingdom of Ends postulated by Kant is an ideal future whose promise is uncertain but it is in some sense part of the conditional structure of ought judgements such as "promises ought to kept"http://michaelrdjames.orgDelphic Podcast