The article is a philosophical argument defining the most important meanings used in the context of security space-time. After a synthetic presentation of the types of anticipation of the future, the author places them in philosophical concepts of security, political science theories and ideologies. Then he develops one of the visions of idealistic concepts of security, namely the vision of cognitive civilization and emancipatory security. It strengthens this vision, on the one hand, in a philosophical view of the choice of ways of realizing life, mainly by Plato, Aristotle and Kant, and on the other hand, in modern human rights and their four generations. On this basis, it tries to describe the essence of enlightened, subjective and emancipatory security - security provided by cognitive actors, i.e. those who create knowledge and information, process, use and transmit it.