NOUN
- the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws
How To Use natural order In A Sentence
- To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level. Archive 2009-06-01
- Roman Stoics such as Marcus Aurelius a metaphysical ideal of natural order and harmony led less to the correction of those ills of society which resulted from the imperfect realization of the logos, the rational order of nature, than to the development of a personal moral stance with which to confront evil. ETHICS OF PEACE
- The term clove bark has been applied to the barks of two different trees belonging to the natural order _Laurineæ_. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order. The Visitor
- Tracy wholeheartedly rejects hard work (this is best captured in the episode called "The Natural Order," in which it is demonstrated that only in an "upside-down" world could Tracy be asked to sincerely labor), and so he relies on his preternatural clownishness and the coattails of his paternal writers and producers for success. Zeeshan Aleem: Is 30 Rock the Most Racist Show on Television?
- The social order, in his view, will correct the premoral contingencies of the natural order, in which pestilence, famine, and war are distributed senselessly, as are opportunities for excellence. A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society
- By the nineteenth century the natural order of innateness emphasized by Aristotle was transformed into a biosocial principle.
- In such a mentality, “wrongness” is understood as transgression, which is understood as deviance from the “natural order”, which is understood in terms of the received wisdom of norms-as-law. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
- But, of course, if the will determines itself only in and through such choices, free from any prevenient natural order, then it too is in itself nothing.
- Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things.