2023年John Locke论文竞赛题目正式发布！（中英双语对照）

作为“文商社科赛事天花板”的John Locke 写作学术活动终于公布2023年题目啦！该写作学术活动主要涉及7类科目：哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理学、神学以及法学。
今年所有组别的题目数量都有所下降，Junior 组别从 2022 年的 7 道题下降到了 5 道，其余组别都从 4 道降至了 3 道，可供大家的选择减少了。
让我们一起来看看期待了一年，赛事组出了什么难题。

2023 John Locke题目

John Locke学术活动分为两个学术活动组别，分别是高年级组和低年级组。

一、高年级组（14岁-18岁）

高年级组的参赛题目涉及哲学、经济、历史、心理学、神学、政治、法律等7个人文社科领域，2023年每个领域有3个可选题目。

哲学 Philosophy

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?
有一批科学家想要知道有多少种性别的存在。他们该如何开展后续的研究？

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?
在哪种意义里，今天的你和 10 岁时的你是同一个人？

Q3. Is tax theft?
税收是一种盗窃行为吗？

政治 Politics

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?
选举的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?
如果中国成为领先的超级大国，这对生活在那里的人们意味着什么？这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?
是什么导致了你自己国家和你国家最近的邻国的不同程度的政治腐败？

经济 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?

政府通过对其人口征税来为其自身支出提供资金。而如果它完全依赖中央银行新创造的货币会怎么样？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.
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?

在他的思想实验“爱荷华州汽车作物”中，大卫·弗里德曼试图表明，在重要的意义上，种植小麦只是我们可以用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”，而且在某些情况下是一种效率更高的技术。
如果国际贸易因此是一种使用价值较低的投入来生产价值较高的产出的方式，那么政府为什么要施加关税和配额等贸易壁垒，从而迫使生产者更加浪费和降低效率？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?
如果我们禁止亿万富翁，会发生什么？

历史 History

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?
与没有英国殖民主义影响的情况相比，今天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?
哪个对历史的影响更大：权势者的计划还是他们的错误？

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不成功的运动区分开来？

心理学 Psychology

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

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，超过一半的受访者表示，他们认为自己比所在国家的中位数人更有吸引力。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?
小规模的宗教与大规模的邪教的区别是什么？

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的信仰吗？

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?
上帝在创造宇宙之前在做什么？

法学 Law

Q1. Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women?
如果有更多的美国最高法院法官是女性，在美国的司法公正会更好地被声张吗？

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?
假设你考虑过用人工智能写出了一篇论文（此行为违反了这个写作学术活动的规则），（想让机器帮你写作文）这种想法和我们平时说的偷窃未遂有什么样的区别？

Q3. Are there too many laws?
现有的法律，是否过多了？

二、低年级组（14岁及以下）

低年级组参赛者的写作题目有5个话题：

Q1. Is safety more important than fun?
安全比乐趣更重要吗？

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it?
如果给你 100 亿美金让你（支配）去把这个世界变得更好，你会怎么花这笔钱？

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?
如果有的话，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（对这件事的认知）是错的？

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?
为什么有时 John Locke 会被称为自由主义之父？

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2023 John Locke参赛规则

2023年比赛对来自任何国家的学生开放。
每篇文章必须仅解决所选主题类别中的一个问题，并且不得超过 2000 字（不包括图表、数据表、脚注、参考书目或作者声明）。

2023 John Locke比赛关键时间节点

注册开始：2023年3月15日
注册截止日期：2023年5月31日(需要在此日期之前注册以便后续提交)
提交截止日期：2023年6月30日
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通知入围候选人：2023年7月31日
学术会议和颁奖晚宴：2023年9月

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2023 JOHN LOCKE ESSAY COMPETITION 论文学术活动

 

1对1   20小时课程 John Locke Essay Competition主要考察学生哪些能力？

（1） 是否了解哲学，政治，经济，历史，心理学，神学或法律等学科领域的基本知识结构

（2）是否掌握议论文的基本写作格式和技巧

（3）是否在文章中展现独立的思想，清晰的逻辑和辩证的分析方式
一般中学生以上几项能力都较为薄弱，通过该写作课程，你将有机会静下心来辩证地分析观点，学习英文写作的逻辑思维和技巧，收获参与写作比赛的宝贵经历，并更好地应对IB/AP/A-Level等学术写作。

课程内容涵盖：

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