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全球顶尖的人文社科竞赛—John Locke Essay Competition（约翰·洛克论文竞赛）你了解吗？

Registration will open on 15 March 2023. the registration deadline: 31 May 2023.

该竞赛2023年的论文提交截止日期为：2023年6月30日（GMT格林威治时间）。

2023年的论文题目已公布，快来一起看看吧。

2023年论文竞赛题目

高年级组

Philosophy

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

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

Q3. Is tax theft?

Politics

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

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

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

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?

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?

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

History

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

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

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

Psychology

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

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?

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?

Theology

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

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?

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

Law

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

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?

Q3. Are there too many laws?

JUNIOR prize 低年级组

Q1. Is safety more important than fun?

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it? 

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?

Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?

竞赛准备

该竞赛旨在考察学生的知识深度以及独立思考、清晰推理、批判性分析和学术写作能力。我们的人文社科领域各专业的外教学术导师为你的Essay提供全程指导，除了帮助学生制定学习计划、每周督导学生的学习进度，还会指导学生如何检索文献并进行高效阅读、如何分析文章、以及如何写好批判型的学术文章等，全面提升批判性思维能力和学术写作能力。一起加入我们的John Locke写作竞赛之路吧！