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Can Hitler be a proper object of humor?
Mr. Van Os said "the real story is and should be, where was George Bush?" and that Mr. Burkett "is not the proper object of attention".
In the fifth century, St. Augustine of Hippo and Pope Leo the Great felt compelled to remind their flocks that Christ, not the sun, was their proper object of their worship.
I would reply that while the "multilayered social milieu" is properly the object of academic attention — it can be described, analyzed and mapped — it is not the proper object of academic intervention.
The latter takes place when one perceives the proper object of one sense through another sense ("The cushion looks soft") or when, on recognizing universal in a particular, one perceives all instances of the universal as its instances.
In her post about the profusion of "Downfall" parodies that turn up on YouTube, my colleague Amy Davidson asks, "Can Hitler be a proper object of humor?" I'd say that the evidence suggests a slightly different question: Can fictional representations of Hitler be anything but funny?
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Accordingly, the proper business of the rational soul was thought, and the proper objects of thought were not concrete particulars but abstract essences, which he called Ideas, or Forms.
Certain attempts at a functionalist definition of religion, such as that of the German American theologian Paul Tillich (1886 1965), who defined religion in terms of human beings' ultimate concern, would leave the way open to count these ideologies as proper objects of the study of religion (Tillich himself called them quasi-religions).
According to Stanley Fish, it is different for Muslims to draw cartoons vilifying the symbols of Christianity and Judaism than for a Danish newspaper to publish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad because the Muslim cartoonists actually believe that Jews and Christians are "proper objects of hatred".
(2) They might assume among their first principles certain propositions about existence to the effect that only certain kinds of things could be proper objects of mathematical inquiry (rational as opposed to irrational numbers, for example)—and time might indeed reveal that the assumption was inappropriate.
[FC: Actual title is Burke's Peerage and Gentry.] Not infrequently, these imposing-looking books were as wacko as anything now on Wikipedia, as many of them made "facts" of off-the-wall data that hardly seemed to be proper objects of empirical study.
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