ORDER, Juby Chacko

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. In nature we find order every
where, any human act which is intended to change that natural order
can be considered as an immoral activity. For what ever God has made
is good and beautiful, and it is He who has put the order in the
nature. The positive laws are made to maintain the social order.
Any violation of the law will certainly affect the social order
there for the violations of the laws are punished in proportion to the
offence committed.
Order, views as a structured state of affairs rather than as a
command, has been a perennial concern of social ethics, in
philosophical and theological contexts. Christian social ethics has
traditionally emphasized the need of order and threat of disorder
because of its convictions about the universality of sin and God's
will to preserve the world from chaos. Thus, order is views as
requirements of love. Order is not only a matter of rational
calculation, for it is dependent on forces beyond human control and is
construed as a matter of divine providence.
Where there is order there is love and beauty and where there is love
and beauty there is morality. What distinguishes a morally upright
society from immoral society is orderliness. Sin can be considered
as the result of disorder.
As the responsible member of the human society it is our moral
obligation to keep the order in ones own life as well as in the
nature. By maintaining the natural order we are building a moral
society. An orderly man naturally tends to move toward implementing
the society based on a moral system, for order is the law of God and
nature.