Ethics, like biology, cosmology and history, is a secular enterprise.
Most people think of photography as a secular enterprise, born of a mechanical age.
And Joey, now a Young Republican paid $8,000 a month to concoct fraudulent reports for something called "Restore Iraqi Secular Enterprise Now," will soon get involved in a boondoggle involving the transshipment of corroded tank parts from Paraguay to Iraq.
Rejecting the traditional picture of theological learning as the perfection or completion of philosophical wisdom, Buridan seems to articulate, sometimes in spite of himself, a new vision of philosophy as a secular enterprise based on what is evident to the senses and intellect, in contrast to theology, which begins from non-evident truths revealed in scripture and doctrine.
It comes not so much from the organized religions, but from psychical research (or parapsychology), a purely secular enterprise.
"The Church, under the leadership of David Miscavige, has strayed from its founding principles and morphed into a secular enterprise whose primary purpose is taking people's money," the complaint says.
This includes people like writer and civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer, who wrote in The Atlantic in 2012 that "if the rights of diverse employees in a secular enterprise are subject to the beliefs of their employers… they'll determine, in part, laws governing the rest of us".
U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton of the Western District of Oklahoma ruled on Nov. 19 that the privately-owned companies are secular, for-profit enterprises that do not possess the same religious rights as the individual members of the family.
It insists that it is a purely secular and scientific enterprise even as it grounds its politics in metaphysical claims.
Those programs go well beyond the government's clear legal authority to address concrete threats to public safety; they put secular officials in the dubious enterprise of trying to shape the beliefs of American Muslims.
