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a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 3295 (MED) Ther be thre partes..Into which philosophie is deuyded. The firste..is morall, Which directeth a man to goode thewes; And the secounde, callid naturall, Tellith the kynde of goode men & shrewes; And the thridde, racounal, weel shewes What men shal uoide & what thing vndirfonge.

1603 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) ii. 82 Morall Philosophie was his chiefest end: for the rationall, the naturall, and the Mathematickes..were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus iv. 60 And of this nature are Morals in Philosophy, because they do componere animum, as natural Philosophy does search into causes of things, and rational Philosophy discuss the propriety of words, and structure of Arguments.

1744 Introd. Study Philos. i. 9 Rational Philosophy..teaches us by what Rules and Means to cultivate and improve our Rational Powers of Thinking and Speaking, in Logic, and in Grammar, and Rhetoric.

1793 T. Hardy Addr. to People 29 They have broken the bonds both of sacred and civil duty; they neither fear God, nor honour the king, and this they call philosophy. It is not rational philosophy, nor natural philosophy, nor moral philosophy.

1894 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 5 122 Historic criticism and rational philosophy are not the enemies, but the friends of religion and the higher morality.

1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 May g2 All of that from a man who graduated from Georgetown University as the winner of the Ryan Medal for Rational Philosophy.

2005 K. Ameriks in K. L. Reinhold Lett. Kantian Philos. Introd. p. xviii For a long time they [sc. Enlightenment philosophers] continued to assert that rational philosophy and ‘natural teleology’ point toward at least the likelihood of a God who provides a meaningful existence..for human individuals.