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有什么國(guó)際競(jìng)賽是理科生、文科生都能參加，且適用于任何一個(gè)申請(qǐng)方向的？我會(huì)肯定地告訴你：當(dāng)然是寫作競(jìng)賽?。?！那在眾多的寫作競(jìng)賽中，哪一個(gè)更適合呢？如果你平日喜愛閱讀硬核學(xué)術(shù)文獻(xiàn)，又有滿腔寫作“熱血”卻又無(wú)處釋放，那么John Locke論文競(jìng)賽就非常適合你參加！提到John Locke比賽，可謂是一眾留學(xué)申請(qǐng)黨心目中論文競(jìng)賽圈的“頂流”存在，它有著“爬藤利器”、“人文社科競(jìng)賽天花板”之稱。John Locke于每年暑期都會(huì)吸引全球最擅長(zhǎng)思考和寫作的中學(xué)生，
John Locke競(jìng)賽簡(jiǎn)介
John Locke Essay Competition（約翰·洛克論文競(jìng)賽）寫作競(jìng)賽是由位于英國(guó)牛津的獨(dú)立教育組織John Locke Institute與牛津、普林斯頓、布朗、白金漢大學(xué)等名校教授合作組織的學(xué)術(shù)項(xiàng)目。為了培養(yǎng)出能獨(dú)立思考，知識(shí)淵博，推理清晰和有說(shuō)服力的小作家，John Locke 每年邀請(qǐng)世界各地的中學(xué)生來(lái)參加寫作競(jìng)賽，探討校外具有挑戰(zhàn)性的問題。
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從官網(wǎng)提供的哲學(xué)、政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、歷史、心理學(xué)、神學(xué)和法律板塊中，選擇一個(gè)自己感興趣的板塊，并回答其中一個(gè)問題（只能選擇一個(gè)問題）。
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每篇文章只能在所選主題類別中回答一個(gè)問題，可以提交多篇文章，但不得超過2000字（不包括圖表、數(shù)據(jù)表、腳注、參考書目或作者聲明）。
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● 提交截止時(shí)間
2024年6月30日
● 適合學(xué)生
15歲-18歲的高年級(jí)組
14歲或以下的低年級(jí)組
● 競(jìng)賽安排
提交截止日期：6月底7月初（暫定）
通知了入圍候選人：7月中旬（暫定）
● 競(jìng)賽要求
個(gè)人參賽，提交一篇2000詞以內(nèi)的論文。
● 可選題目
涉及哲學(xué)，政治，經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，歷史，心理學(xué)，神學(xué)和法律共7個(gè)領(lǐng)域的21個(gè)題目。
很多同學(xué)看完競(jìng)賽要求后可能還是存在疑問，到底JohnLocke競(jìng)賽要考些什么呢？又或者說(shuō)往屆的真題是怎么樣的呢？我們先從往年的真題入手，掌握出題規(guī)律和了解題目方向
John Locke-23年選題
Philosophy 哲學(xué)
Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?
一個(gè)科學(xué)家小組想探索他們有多少種性別，應(yīng)該如何進(jìn)行？
Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?
從哪種意義上說(shuō)，你今天和你十歲時(shí)是同一個(gè)人？
Q3. Is tax theft?
稅是不是偷竊的？
History 歷史
Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?
現(xiàn)在的英國(guó)人比沒有英國(guó)殖民主義影響的英國(guó)人富裕或貧窮多少？
Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?
權(quán)貴的計(jì)劃和他們的錯(cuò)誤對(duì)歷史影響更大？
Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?
哪些特征將成功的社會(huì)變革運(yùn)動(dòng)與失敗的社會(huì)變革區(qū)分開來(lái)？
Psychology 心理學(xué)
Q1. Can happiness be measured?
幸福可以被衡量嗎？
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(guó)進(jìn)行的調(diào)查中，超過一半的受訪者明顯表示，他們認(rèn)為自己比本國(guó)的中位人士更有吸引力。我們?nèi)绾谓忉屵@一點(diǎn)？
Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?
信仰是自愿的嗎？
Theology 神學(xué)
Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?
小宗教與大宗教有什么區(qū)別？
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(shuō)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所相信的嗎？
Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?
上帝在創(chuàng)造宇宙之前在做什么？
Politics 政治
Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?
選舉結(jié)果是否表達(dá)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(guó)成為主要超級(jí)大國(guó)，這對(duì)生活在那里的人意味著什么？對(duì)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?
你的國(guó)家和近鄰國(guó)家的政治腐敗程度不同的原因是什么？
JUNIOR Prize 初級(jí)獎(jiǎng)
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?
如果你有100億美元用于改善世界，你會(huì)怎么花？
Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?
如果存在什么東西，是你父母欠你的？
Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?
什么是重要的，但幾乎每個(gè)人都錯(cuò)了？
Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?
為什么約翰·洛克有時(shí)被稱為自由主義之父？
Economics 經(jīng)濟(jì)
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(duì)人口征稅來(lái)資助自己的支出。相反，假設(shè)它僅僅依靠中央銀行新創(chuàng)造的資金？?jī)?yōu)點(diǎn)和/或缺點(diǎn)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?
David Friedman在他的思想實(shí)驗(yàn)《愛荷華州汽車作物》（Iowa Car Crop）中試圖表明，從重要意義上講，種植小麥只是我們可以用來(lái)制造汽車的另一種“技術(shù)”，在某些情況下，這是一種效率更高的技術(shù)。
如果國(guó)際貿(mào)易因此是一種利用價(jià)值較低的投入生產(chǎn)更有價(jià)值的產(chǎn)出的方式，那么政府為什么會(huì)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(fèi)和效率低下？
Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?
如果我們禁止億萬(wàn)富翁，會(huì)發(fā)生什么？
Law 法律
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，美國(guó)的司法會(huì)更好嗎？
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)你正在考慮，違反了比賽規(guī)則提交一篇人工智能為你撰寫的論文。這種行為和普通的盜竊未遂有什么區(qū)別？
Q3. Are there too many laws?
現(xiàn)在法律制定太多了嗎？
