Minotaur Book Club: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Minotaur Book Club
Our next "book" will be another "founding document" for the United State, "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
We finished our 2-part series on the Federalist Papers. You can see those videos on our YouTube Channel:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe817kHhDpUt9Q3PUrWBamQQuE0jUYSfM&si=8VPb5Ffd8P6RPGzy
Date and Time:
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, October 16th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm EST
Chosen Book:
“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
Available as a PDF: https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1776ThomasPaine.pdf
Or check your local library
The Minotaur Book Club delves into timeless questions and contemporary challenges, inviting participants to explore the roots of governance, liberty, and democracy through the lens of history and philosophy. The discussions will provide a fertile ground for examining how the principles of justice, equality, and collective responsibility have evolved and where they still fall short.
Purpose: The purpose of the book club is to counteract our country’s historical amnesia and strengthen our democracy. To that end, we will read and discuss books that help us to understand the American Project, diagnose persisting problems, and suggest ways to fulfill the mission of the Preamble to the Constitution.
"We the People of the United States, to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Minotaur is one of the key archetypes representing the threat to social order when government leaders threaten democracy by converting public goods to private purposes. The best defense for a democracy is educated citizens.
“A society ignorant and free, never was, never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We have given you a republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin
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