备受瞩目的2023 John locke今天开题了,而且今年规则发生了变化,这一点官网在一开始就提醒大家!总结一下重点就是:
1. 今年需要提前注册,3月15开始,5月31日截止。官方建议尽早注册和提交,提交截止日还是6/30日。
2. 需要一个学术推荐人,来证明论文由学生独立完成。
下面,一起来看下今年的规则和题目:
https://www.johnlockeinstitute.com/essay-competition
竞赛简介 Project Introduction
John Locke Essay Competition写作竞赛是由位于英国牛津的独立教育组织John Locke Institute与牛津、普林斯顿、布朗、白金汉大学等名校教授合作组织的学术项目。每年暑期,竞赛吸引了全球最擅长思考和写作的中学生。往届优胜者遍布哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、斯坦福、牛津、剑桥等世界名校。
这项比赛不仅考察学生在政治、哲学等几个学科领域内的基本知识结构,更意在考察学生是否具有成熟的学术写作习惯,是否具有独立思考的能力以及清晰的逻辑辩证分析能力。
John Locke相信优秀的教育不仅教导学生知识,更会授人以渔,帮助学生积极进步,建立对于知识的热爱和尊重。
所有的论文奖都是由来自牛津大学的资深学者评选的。评委将从每个主题类别中选择自己喜欢的论文,并从以下七个主题中选择“最佳论文”:
哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理学、神学、法学
竞赛规则 Contest Rules
参赛时间:2023.1~2023.6.30
参赛资格:参赛资格:各个国家18岁以下的学生都可以参与,Junior不能超过14岁
参赛要求:7大主题:哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理学、神学。每个学生只能报名每个类别中的一个题目,但可以报多个类别,撰写2000字以内的学术论文
参赛收费:免费
入围通知时间:2023年7月31日
学术会议和颁奖晚宴:2023年9月
奖项:所有入围选手(short-listed)都可以获得电子证书;每个类别都会评出一二三等奖(各一名),一名世界冠军,还有2000美元的奖学金,还会邀请到牛津参加颁奖典礼。
七大主题 Seven Subjects
哲学 Philosophy
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?
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的邻国存在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?
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。我们该如何解释这一点?
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,你是否有足够的理由相信你的信仰?
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?
低年级组 Junior Prize
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?
如果你有100亿美元可以用来让世界变得更美好,你会怎么花?
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?
什么是重要的却被世人误知的呢?
Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?
为什么约翰·洛克有时被称为自由主义之父?