Journey Toward Justice 4

In this chapter, Nick tells about one advantage about starting from the position of the one wronged. He contrasts it with Rawls' position. Rawls' concept of justice is based on right, but a highly abstract contractarian view about right. He asks the question what a just society would look like from an abstract position. Nick's view is also based on right but he starts of differently. He will explain in later chapters how he does that. 

But he argues that one advantage he has over Rawls' approach is that Rawls' approach is able to deal justice/injustice at the level of institution only; it fails to take into consideration issues of justice/injustice between individuals and communities -- those entities which are not institutional, whereas his approach is able to take consideration about justice/injustice at different levels. Of course, Rawls may respond and say that his theory is not an adequate theory of justice while Nick claims that his theory of justice is meant to be an adequate theory of justice.