Natural order
In philosophy, the natural order is the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority. It encompasses the natural relations of beings to one another, in the absence of law, which natural law attempts to reinforce
The Natural Order. Early naturalists also thought in terms of Plato's Theory of Ideas. Under this view there were two separate worlds, or realms of being. There was this world the one perceived by the senses, the World of Sensible Things and there was a second, imperceptible world, the World of Ideas.
Medieval churchmen had argued, and the schoolmen of the early scientific era still accepted, that God had created this perfect world of ideas and that it gave order to the perceptible world. The ideas, in their separate realm, were eternal and immutable. In the perceptible world, individuals of a given type differed in nonessential details each was an imperfect representation, an exemplar, of an essential, eternal, perfect idea. They saw as mere reflections of an imagined underlying, perfect natural order.
The words used to refer to these ideas or types were those of Aristotelian logic, that is, species and genus. All of the various existing types of organisms were considered eternal and immutable, because it was believed that the various essential, which were the supposed principles by which things were made, were themselves eternal.
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