The idea of justice arises from the experience of injustice, suffered by us or those dear to us. For a common discourse we can start from here, not from abstract speculations that, instead of uniting, have always divided.

Gustavo Zagrebelsky and cardinal Carlo Maria Martini address in this book a subject that has been the object of reflection for centuries: justice, its forms of expression and its meaning for both secular and religious culture. The perspective they offer is novel, since they abandon highly complex conceptual constructions and indicate with simplicity and brevity the way in which each person can approach justice from his or her daily experience. This is the greatest virtue of the work: it suggests the possibility for each reader to conceive his or her own existence as an experience of justice, even if he or she is not able to define it.