And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mark 1:17 KJV
New International Version
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
Mark 1:17 NIV
And Iesus sayde vnto them: folowe me and I will make you fisshers of men.
Mark 1:17 TYN
- Baruch Spinoza (plato.standford.edu)
Bento (in Hebrew, Baruch; in Latin, Benedictus) Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to a number of Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism, Hobbes, and medieval Jewish rationalism into a nonetheless highly original system. His extremely naturalistic views on God, the world, the human being and knowledge serve to ground a moral philosophy centered on the control of the passions leading to virtue and happiness. They also lay the foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a deep critique of the pretensions of Scripture and sectarian religion. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, Spinoza is among the most relevant today.