The right approach, I think, starts by taking individuals - not nations, tribes or "peoples" - as the proper object of moral concern.

These questions are ultimately the "proper object of faith, but not of reason."

We keep the peace in private life by asking for the facts of provocation, and the proper object of punishment.

Unlike philosophy or psychology, sociology's proper object of study are social facts.

It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object.

We should find and possess God in this world since the corporeal world is the proper object of our intelligence.

For this we must carry along with us, that the proper and only object of the will is some action of ours, and nothing else.

These may be considered the proper objects of economy, scientific knowledge, and politics.

It seemed a woman had to be wed to become the proper object of a poet's passion in Arbonne.

The question is, what should be the proper object of pleasure?