Background
Daniel, Stephen Hartley was born on June 9, 1950 in Salisbury, North Carolina, United States. Son of Edward Montgomery and Etta Mae Alice (Hourguettes) Daniel.
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Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished material representing Toland's broad interests, Professor Daniel reveals a common theme emphasizing man's capacity for independent thought on basic philosophical, religious, and political issues. Roughly chronological, Daniel's treatment describes Toland's progressive refinement of this fundamental aspect of his thought. After examining, in his early works, the process whereby religion becomes mystified, Toland turned to biography, demonstrating that through it one can regain rational control over religion. Prejudices and superstitions, topics of the Letters to Serena, are shown to be overcome through corrections implicit in the principles of biographical and historical exegesis. Polemic as philosophic methode required Toland to provide a doctrine of esoteric communication. In the course of his later writings this doctrine became grounded in a metaphysics suitable for the Cieronian religion of the pantheists.
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Daniel, Stephen Hartley was born on June 9, 1950 in Salisbury, North Carolina, United States. Son of Edward Montgomery and Etta Mae Alice (Hourguettes) Daniel.
Bachelor in Philosophy, St. Joseph Seminary College, St. Benedict, Louisiana, 1972; Master of Arts in Philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1977.
Assistant professor philosophy, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, 1977-1978; assistant professor philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, 1978-1983; department chairman, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, 1982-1983; assistant professor philosophy, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1983-1986; assistant head department, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1986-1990; associate professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1986-1993; professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1993.
( Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished mater...)
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(Philosophy, Mythology, Literary Studies)
Member American Philosophical Association, American Society for 18th Century Studies, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Aggieland Paddle Club.
Married Sheryl Marie Breaux, May 19, 1972.