In practice, this is commercial fishing with a side order of science.Should whales be treated like any other type of animal which some humans want to hunt, namely protected when rare, but hunted when common?
The "order of science" pertains to the relationship not only between individual sciences but also between the sets of discoverable facts within each given discipline.[27] The central idea here is that certain truths are known prior to, and serve as a basis for discovering, other truths.
For me, it is the order of science, the beauty of the relationships, that call me to teach.
This same aspect is also present in the consideration of the order of the sciences, in which all sciences are preparatory to the science of the higher end: all sciences are subordinated to, or at the service of (famulantur), theology.
To produce and transmit scientific understanding, Aristotle thought we had to duplicate, in the deductive order of the science, the order of causes found in reality.
A reasonable objection to Wolff might be that his conception of the rational order of human science is based on an unwarranted assumption about the harmonious order he believes to be present in all facets of reality.
This harmonious order (the objection continues) illicitly presupposes that a Divine Architect has created everything according to a plan and thus the rational order of human science is simply an upshot of God's creative power.
There are certainly passages of Wolff's works that lend support to such an objection.[30] However, to reduce Wolff's view of the rational order of human science to simply a dogmatic metaphysical claim really ignores the practical and common sense dimensions to his thought.
Check a question behind highly ordered laws of science: that is, why is the universe so orderly?
In chapters 63 and 64, Kilwardby discusses different ways to consider the order of the sciences: (i) the order of discovery, (ii) the natural order, (iii) the ordering according to ends, (iv) the order of the degree of certainty, and (v) the order of teachability.
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