[Textop] Text frontrunners

[Larry Sanger]

All,

Collating the recommendations from six different people, on- and off-list,
and including suggestions made earlier on the [textop] list, here's the
tally so far (number of "votes" in parentheses):

Bacon, Essays (1)
Hobbes, Leviathan (2)
Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (4)
Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government 
Berkeley, Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1)
Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1)
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1)
David Hume, Essays concerning Human Understanding and morals (1)
Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1)
Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (1)
J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (1)
J. S. Mill, On Liberty 
J. S. Mill, On the Subjection of Women (1)
C. S. Peirce, selected essays 
William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics 
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (1)
Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy (3)
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind (1)
Hoppe, "Democracy: The God That Failed" (1)

The numbers represent the number of people who have said, sometime, that we
might use the text in question.  Each person may "vote" for as many texts as
he or she wishes (just not more than one vote per person per text)--and very
strong suggestions will count for something too.

As you can see, the frontrunners are currently Locke's Essay, Russell's
Problems of Philosophy, and Hobbes' Leviathan.

Do feel free to vote, if you think you might be participating, and in that
case you really should join [textop-en-phil], here:
http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop-en-phil

--Larry