In the article the methodological possibilities of epistemic-paradigmal modeling of time are shown. By detection of specific paradigms of being and time, formed in the epistemes of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and also XVII — beg. XXI c., the ontological line of articulation of time is reconstructed.
To the ontological exemplary model the anthropological paradigm of time is contraposed, and through its methodological reconstruction the author will be executing further development of the concept of the anthropic time and the historical process.