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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the world’s most unique philosophers. He wrote such works as his “Copernican Revolution” and “The Critique of Pure Reason”. Although many philosophers believe that time is all around us and we are merely trapped inside of time, Kant described time as “the form of inner sense”. Kant states that time and all things related are a priori (instinctive) perceptual features of man’s nature. Time is a mental construct, a priori to culture conditioning. It is inside the head, not outside of it. Time does not exist in the physical world because it has no physical attributes. Kant says that “the mind will trick itself into thinking that objects around it are ‘in’ time” (Time and Space). We think that because we have a word for time, that it exists around us. Time does not exist around us, we merely see things around us in the form of time. Time is a thought – a way of thinking. Time is not tangible. It has no existence in the physical world, only in the mental world. Time is a mental cons