Political Philosophy and Time is an inquiry into the nature of political vision and its relationship to conceptions of time and history. John G. Gunnell argues that political philosophy, at its inception, was a conscious attempt to create an ordered sphere that would integrate man with the eternal and free him from the change, decay, and disorder of historical time. The Egyptians and Mesopotamians achieved this integration through myth; the Hebrews, through their belief in Yahweh. In the heart of the book, Gunnell reveals the steady growth in the complexity of the Greek idea of time and consequent breakdown of the integral myth, focusing primarily on the works of Plato.