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藤校录取“法宝”！2023年John Locke论文竞赛放题（含中英双语）

Category: 国际竞赛, 翰林严选 Date: 2023年2月2日上午9:47

John Locke Essay Competition（约翰·洛克论文学术活动）作为含金量极高的论文写作学术活动，受到英国和美国各大顶级院校的认可，在比赛中获奖可以大幅提升美国和英国大学本科申请竞争力。往年参与学生录取成绩包括普林斯顿、哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福、芝加哥、伯克利、牛津、剑桥等世界名校。可谓是申请经济与人文社科专业，斩获哈佛、斯坦福、牛剑Offer等名校必备的国际学术活动。

2023年的赛季已经开启，被誉为藤校录取“法宝”的John Locke论文学术活动今日开题，写作备赛时间又多了一个月！记得收藏码住，一起来看看你适合哪一题~

Philosophy哲学

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

一个科学家小组想探索多少种性别存在，应该如何进行呢？

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

从哪种意义上说，今天的你和十岁时的你是同一个人？

Q3. Is tax theft?

税属于偷窃行为吗？

Politics政治学

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?

选举结果是否表达了人民的意愿？

Q2. If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?

如果中国成为主要超级大国，这对生活在那里的人意味着什么？对其他人意味着什么？

Q3. What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?

你的国家和近邻国家的政治腐败程度不同的原因是什么？

经济学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?

政府通过对人口征税来资助自己的支出。相反，假设它仅仅依靠中央银行新创造的资金？优点和/或缺点是什么？

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.

David Friedman在他的思想实验《爱荷华州汽车作物》（Iowa Car Crop）中试图表明，从重要意义上讲，种植小麦只是我们可以用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”，在某些情况下，这是一种效率更高的技术。

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?

如果国际贸易因此是一种利用价值较低的投入生产更有价值的产出的方式，那么政府为什么会施加关税和配额等贸易壁垒，从而迫使生产者更加浪费和效率低下？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

如果我们禁止亿万富翁，会发生什么？

心理学Psychology

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

幸福可以被衡量吗？

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?

在美国进行的调查中，=超过一半的受访者明显表示，他们认为自己比本国的中位人士更有吸引力。我们如何解释这一点？

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?

信仰是自愿的吗？

神学Theology

Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?

小宗教与大宗教有什么区别？

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?

如果你不能说服你聪明、富有同情心的朋友接受你的宗教信仰体系，你有足够的理由相信你所相信的吗？

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?

上帝在创造宇宙之前在做什么？

历史学History

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?

现在的英国人比没有英国殖民主义影响的英国人富裕或贫穷多少？

Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?

权贵的计划和他们的错误对历史影响更大？

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?

哪些特征将成功的社会变革运动与失败的社会变革区分开来？

法律Law

Q1. Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women?

如果更多的最高法院法官是女性，美国的司法会更好吗？

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?

假设你正在考虑，违反了比赛规则提交一篇人工智能为你撰写的论文。这种行为和普通的盗窃未遂有什么区别？

Q3. Are there too many laws?

现在法律制定太多了吗？