"secular concept" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an idea or principle that is not related to religion or spiritual beliefs, but rather focuses on the world and human affairs in a non-religious context. Example: In modern society, the separation of church and state is a secular concept that aims to maintain equality and fairness for all individuals regardless of their religious beliefs.
In Defensor pacis, a political polemic, as well as a tract on political theory, Marsilius, applying principles of Aristotle, evolved a secular concept of the state.
Government officials, by contrast, have a very different constitutionally mandated obligation -- to devise public policies based not on religious interests but on a secular concept of public good.
Rousseau's own understanding of the general will emerged from a critique of Denis Diderot, who transforms Malebranche's understanding of the general will into a secular concept but who echoes Malebranche by defining it in universalistic terms.
He recaps scenes from Sinclair Lewis's "Babbitt" without stopping to explain the source and favors us with disquisitions on the subject of free will and the need for a secular concept of "an objective moral order" -- all inconceivable in a contemporary work of pop psychology.
The modern and entirely secular concept of brain-stem death can, perhaps rather surprisingly, find both a conceptual and a topographical foundation in the writings of René Descartes (1596 1650), the great French philosopher and mathematician who sought to bring analytical geometry, physics, physiology, cosmology, and religion into an integrated conceptual framework.
Religious liberty is a secular concept that basically operates in a negative mode.
Although the panel was formed a year ago, it did not start work until after recent calls to purge universities of professors and curriculums deemed "un-Islamic," based on the fear that the teaching of secular concepts helped fuel the political unrest following the June 12 election.
The stunning central thesis of the book is that "tolerance could be the cemetery of democracies, while secular concepts are their crucible".
Nathan Gardels: "Tolerance could be the cemetery of democracies, while secular concepts are their crucible," you write in your book, Left in Dark Times.
There is a secular moral concept of evil which is distinct from fictional or religious conceptions, and it is this secular conception of evil that is meant most often when the term 'evil' is used in moral and political contexts (see Garrard 2002, 325; Card 2010, 10 17).
On this secular, performative concept, forgiveness consists in political actors or institutions opting not to get their due, for whatever reasons.
