No less importantly, intellectual probing is needed to identify deeds that are not intended to be injurious, but which have that effect... - Amartya Sen

Hugely engaging as this longing is for hope and history to rhyme together, the justice of transcendental institutionalism has little room for that engagement. This limitation provides one illustration of the need for a substantial departure in the prevailing theories of justice. That is the subject matter of this book.

...a theory of justice that can serve as the basis of practical reasoning must include ways of judging how to reduce injustice and advance justice, rather than aiming only at the characterization of perfectly just societies – an exercise that is such a dominant feature of many theories of justice in political philosophy today.

To ask how things are going and whether they can be improved is a constant and inescapable part of the pursuit of justice.