recta ratio /ˈɹɛktə ˈɹeɪʃɪəʊ/ noun1 •“Right reason”, which regards virtue as desirable in itself.Here we may see whence the Scholemen borrowed their Recta ratio, right reason, which they make with the Philosophers to be the Regula esse moralis, the rule of Moral Beings and Actions. — 1677
