Rawls cannot, then, be accused in any way of either inconsistency or incompleteness in presenting his theories. The question that remains, however, is how this consistent and coherent political model will trans¬late into guidance about judgements of justice in the world in which we live, rather than in the imagined world with which Rawls is here primar¬ily concerned. Rawls's focus does indeed make sense, if the intention is to outline how to achieve the perfectly just social arrangements and, with the additional help of reasonable behavior, a totally just society.* But this makes the distance between transcendental thinking and comparative judgements of social justice, on which I commented in the Introduction, that much larger and more problematic.