ABSTRACT
Forfromthestandpointofadevelopedlegalsystem,legalwork proceedsalmostwhollybywayofclassificationandtreatmentof categories.Onlypoorlybuiltcategoriescallformuchindividuated exception,thepresenct;ofwhichortheneedforwhichisthereforeinallbutoddcasesasymptomofinadequateinitialstructuring.Soundlegalstructuringdoesindeedcallforongoingredirectionofcategories,sothatthelinesofthecategoriesmaybealways subjecttotheirreason;anditcallsfortheedgesofcategoriesto beflexibleundertheinfluenceofreasonandfreshexperience;but thatgoestoremodelingofthecategories,rarelytoindividuation insidethem.Whatcannotbecategorizedtosatisfactioniscapable onlyofbadlegaltreatment,orelseofwhatonemaycallsemiorpre-legaltreatment,sayoftheuntrammeledjuvenilecourttype. Suchsemi-orpre-legaloperationisnotanti-legal,butiscomplementaryorimplementary,andis(althoughnot"formed"or formulated)arightandtruepartofthelegalstructureitself, wheneveritmovesintermsofthegeneralobjectivesofpurpose andmannertowhichthelegalsystemisgeared;andwhenit movesintermsoftheleewaysrecognizedbyandwithinthestructureforplaytoallowofjudgmentandcumulativeexperimentin
LAW,HUMANDIGNITY,ANDCIVILIZATION477 goodfaith;and,finally,whentheindividuatedor"discretionary" operationmovesintermsofquestforapatterntoguidetreatment ofwhatmayatthemomentseemauniquecase.Putfromthe otherside:thesemi-orpre-legalunchartedmovementisanti-legal whenitoccursinbadfaith,oroccurswithoutquestforsomepossiblyemergingpattern;orwhenitpersistentlyjumpstherecognizedlimitsorevenpersistentlypushesdailyactionouttoward limitswhichexistonlyfortheoccasionalcase.Butafailureof suchcomplementaryorimplementaryaction,whenitisneeded, orafailuretoreachforproperremodelingofcategories-at needbyinterstitialindividuatedaction-thatspellslegalismand woodenness,i.e.,"law"whichhaslosttouchwithlaw'sreasonfor being.
