2023年John Locke論文競賽題目正式發(fā)布！（中英雙語對照）

作為“文商社科賽事天花板”的John Locke?寫作學術(shù)活動終于公布2023年題目啦！該寫作學術(shù)活動主要涉及7類科目：哲學、政治、經(jīng)濟、歷史、心理學、神學以及法學。
今年所有組別的題目數(shù)量都有所下降，Junior 組別從 2022 年的 7 道題下降到了 5 道，其余組別都從 4 道降至了 3 道，可供大家的選擇減少了。
讓我們一起來看看期待了一年，賽事組出了什么難題。

2023 John Locke題目

John Locke學術(shù)活動分為兩個學術(shù)活動組別，分別是高年級組和低年級組。

一、高年級組（14歲-18歲）

高年級組的參賽題目涉及哲學、經(jīng)濟、歷史、心理學、神學、政治、法律等7個人文社科領(lǐng)域，2023年每個領(lǐng)域有3個可選題目。

哲學 Philosophy

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?
有一批科學家想要知道有多少種性別的存在。他們該如何開展后續(xù)的研究？

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?
在哪種意義里，今天的你和 10 歲時的你是同一個人？

Q3. Is tax theft?
稅收是一種盜竊行為嗎？

政治 Politics

Q1.?Do the results of elections express the will of the people?
選舉的結(jié)果是否表達了人民的意愿？

Q2.?If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?
如果中國成為領(lǐng)先的超級大國，這對生活在那里的人們意味著什么？這對其他人意味著什么？

Q3.?What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?
是什么導致了你自己國家和你國家最近的鄰國的不同程度的政治腐敗？

經(jīng)濟?Economics

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?

政府通過對其人口征稅來為其自身支出提供資金。而如果它完全依賴中央銀行新創(chuàng)造的貨幣會怎么樣？優(yōu)點和/或缺點是什么？

Q2. In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.
If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?

在他的思想實驗“愛荷華州汽車作物”中，大衛(wèi)·弗里德曼試圖表明，在重要的意義上，種植小麥只是我們可以用來制造汽車的另一種“技術(shù)”，而且在某些情況下是一種效率更高的技術(shù)。
如果國際貿(mào)易因此是一種使用價值較低的投入來生產(chǎn)價值較高的產(chǎn)出的方式，那么政府為什么要施加關(guān)稅和配額等貿(mào)易壁壘，從而迫使生產(chǎn)者更加浪費和降低效率？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?
如果我們禁止億萬富翁，會發(fā)生什么？

歷史 History

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?
與沒有英國殖民主義影響的情況相比，今天的英國人富裕或貧窮多少？

Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?
哪個對歷史的影響更大：權(quán)勢者的計劃還是他們的錯誤？

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?
哪些特征將成功的社會變革運動與不成功的運動區(qū)分開來？

心理學?Psychology

Q1. Can happiness be measured?
幸福可以衡量嗎？

Q2. In surveys conducted in the United States, significantly more than half the respondents reported that they believed themselves to be more attractive than the median person in their country. How might we account for this?
在美國進行的調(diào)查中，超過一半的受訪者表示，他們認為自己比所在國家的中位數(shù)人更有吸引力。我們?nèi)绾谓忉屵@一點？

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?
信仰是自愿的嗎？

神學?Theology

Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?
小規(guī)模的宗教與大規(guī)模的邪教的區(qū)別是什么？

Q2. If you cannot persuade your intelligent, sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system, do you have enough reason to believe what you believe?
如果你不能說服你聰明、富有同情心的朋友接受你的宗教信仰體系，你有足夠的理由相信你的信仰嗎？

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?
上帝在創(chuàng)造宇宙之前在做什么？

法學 Law

Q1. Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women?
如果有更多的美國最高法院法官是女性，在美國的司法公正會更好地被聲張嗎？

Q2. Suppose that you were contemplating, in violation of the rules of this competition, submitting an essay written for you by artificial intelligence. What would be the difference between such an act and ordinary attempted theft?
假設(shè)你考慮過用人工智能寫出了一篇論文（此行為違反了這個寫作學術(shù)活動的規(guī)則），（想讓機器幫你寫作文）這種想法和我們平時說的偷竊未遂有什么樣的區(qū)別？

Q3. Are there too many laws?
現(xiàn)有的法律，是否過多了？

二、低年級組（14歲及以下）

低年級組參賽者的寫作題目有5個話題：

Q1. Is safety more important than fun?
安全比樂趣更重要嗎？

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it?
如果給你 100 億美金讓你（支配）去把這個世界變得更好，你會怎么花這筆錢？

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?
如果有的話，你的父母欠你什么？

Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?
有什么事情是重要的，但大部分人（對這件事的認知）是錯的？

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?
為什么有時 John Locke 會被稱為自由主義之父？

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2023?JOHN LOCKE ESSAY COMPETITION 論文學術(shù)活動

 

1對1 ? 20小時課程 John Locke Essay Competition主要考察學生哪些能力？

（1） 是否了解哲學，政治，經(jīng)濟，歷史，心理學，神學或法律等學科領(lǐng)域的基本知識結(jié)構(gòu)

（2）是否掌握議論文的基本寫作格式和技巧

（3）是否在文章中展現(xiàn)獨立的思想，清晰的邏輯和辯證的分析方式
一般中學生以上幾項能力都較為薄弱，通過該寫作課程，你將有機會靜下心來辯證地分析觀點，學習英文寫作的邏輯思維和技巧，收獲參與寫作比賽的寶貴經(jīng)歷，并更好地應(yīng)對IB/AP/A-Level等學術(shù)寫作。

課程內(nèi)容涵蓋：

John Locke Essay Competition Outline1V1
Course will be a total of 20 hours. 16 Hours will be dedicated to an online course, while the other 4 will be spent on personal essay editing.
The course will be 10 sessions, with each session being 2 hours each. (C) stands for Course classes, while (E) stands for editing workloads.

Note: the student must finish the respective Project Progress work before the review sessions, or the course cannot guarantee a prompt and prestigious final essay.

Session 1 (C): Understanding the Essay Competition
First Major Tools for Success

Session 2 (C): Research methods & Initial research

Session 3 (C): Possible approaches to research
Project Progress (Homework) – the Research Proposal

Session 4 (C): Research Proposal Review
Gauging the ability of the student

Session 5 (C): Detailed Research & Apply Tools for Essay writing success
Project Progress (Homework) – the Essay Outline

Session 6 (C): Rough draft of John Locke Essay
Project Progress (Homework) – the Finished Rough Draft

Session 7 (C): Rough draft review & Smaller edits important for polishing finished product

Session 8 (E): Second draft of John Locke Essay
Project Progress (Homework) – the Finished Second Draft

Session 9 (C): Second draft review, taking care of any other major issues
Project Progress (Homework) – the Finished Final Draft
Session 10 (E): Final Draft Review, Essay Submission