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John Locke约翰·洛克
是个怎样的写作竞赛?
提到约翰·洛克(John Locke),大家可能会想到PeerBang之前开设的《政府论》英文精读课。没有错,就是那个洛克。约翰·洛克是古典自由主义的鼻祖。他的思想影响了西方国家体制改革,连美国的《独立宣言》也继承了洛克的思想。John Locke Essay Competition背后的举办组织,正是继承了洛克精神的 John Locke Institution(约翰·洛克研究所)——这是一个牛津的独立教育组织,并与英国和美国的大学、学院、研究机构和智库有一系列的高层次合作。近日,一年一度的John Locke Essay Competition写作竞赛公布了:2023年的竞赛题目,邀请全球最擅长思考和写作的中学生报名参加。该竞赛的目标是通过论文写作去帮助学生探索各种富有挑战性和有趣的问题,建立丰富的知识,并提高论证技巧。总之,这绝对是向招生官展示自己论文能力的绝佳机会,这一次,同学们千万不要错过!2023年的可选题目涉及:哲学,政治,经济,历史,心理学,宗教和法律共7个领域的21个题目。参赛的同学可以从21个问题中择一进行写作。纵观今年的论文写作题目,趣味、烧脑、犀利:Philosophy
哲学
Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?(一组科学家想知道有多少种性别。他们应该如何进行?)Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?(从什么意义上说,你今天和你十岁时是同一个人?)Q3. Is tax theft? (税收相当于偷窃吗?)Politics
政治
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存在不同程度的政治腐败?)Economics
经济
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?)History
历史
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?)Psychology
心理学
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。我们该如何解释这一点?)Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?(信仰是自愿的吗?)Theology
宗教
Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?(宗教与邪教的区别是什么?)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,你还有足够的理由相信自己所相信的吗?)Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?(上帝在创造宇宙之前在做什么?)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,美国会更好地伸张正义吗?)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?(假设你打算违反本次比赛的规则,提交一篇人工智能主题的文章作为你写的论文。这种行为与普通的盗窃未遂有什么区别?)Q3. Are there too many laws?(法律条款太多了吗?)青少年组 Junior(未满 15 岁的学生)
1、安全比乐趣更重要吗?2、如果你有100亿美元可以用来让世界变得更美好,你会怎么花?3、如果有的话,你的父母欠你什么?4、 什么是重要的却被世人误知的呢?5、 为什么约翰·洛克有时被称为自由主义之父参加John Locke写作竞赛,你能收获什么?
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