 The historical act of reconstructing past human creations and projecting oneself into the thoughts of others makes salient critical philosophy of history’s synthetic function of connecting temporal reality and mind through the process and consciousness of time. Through this form of communication with the past and present, the phenomenological aspect of Ortega’s thought thereby combines with his existential and historicist perspectives. The synthetic function of these perspectives becomes actualized in individual behavior, in social relations and in history. It is the fusion of these approaches that mark Ortega’s contribution to philosophy. “Very deep is the well in the past”, Thomas Mann wrote at the beginning of his novel, Joseph and His Brothers. In bringing human connectedness and meaning to historical time and mind, Ortega’s critical philosophy of history has provided a synthesis that serves to prevent the deep well of the past from becoming bottomless.