A Preface to Politics is a book written by David Schuman and Rex S. Wirth. This book talks about the politics present in this day. It talks about the parts of politics that are mostly ignored by people. The book questions politics in a manner that isn't usually looked upon as. The sixth edition of the book has a total of twelve chapters. This essay is going to discuss two parts of the book, that is, the section on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in the 10th chapter and whole of the 11.5th chapter. In chapter 10 the authors use a popular allegory made by Plato called as Allegory of the Cave. The allegory is used to discuss the problems of justice, how it is an illusion. The allegory goes a little something like this: Men are trapped and chained in cave facing only towards the wall of the cave and nothing else for their entire lifetime. They are only able to see shadows of the world behind them and soon enough they believe the shadow world to be the reality. The men who are trapped in the cave live in an illusionary world when the actual truth is that the non-shadow world is the true world. The authors claim that we are those chained people living in a world of illusion. The authors use this allegory to claim the word, ‘justice’ is a misleading word. When one hears the word ‘justice’ the individual automatically visions the definition in their own mind. However people don't really think about the validity of their definition of justice. Schuman and Wirth wrote, “We can conceive of a perfect world; we cannot make one” (213). This implies that the perfect world we think of exists just in our heads and is not really achievable in the real world. The relation to the authors’ point and the allegory is that we are the chained people who are living in an illusionary world (world of the shadow) because the chained people are not exposed to anything else, which causes them to think that it is real. The perfect world in our minds le