2023年John Locke论文竞赛题目已公布！

　　好消息！2023年John Locke论文竞赛题目已公布！

　　John Locke比赛，可谓是一众留学申请党心目中论文竞赛圈的“顶流”存在，每年的开题也都在时刻时刻牵动着众多家长和同学的心！

　　这个竞赛究竟是什么来头？能让这么多大佬竞相参加？今年的题目又会引导出什么方向的思考呢？我们赶快来一探究竟。

John Locke论文竞赛

　　约翰·洛克论文大赛 (John Locke Institute Essay Competition)的设立是为了纪念英国著名哲学家和医生John Locke的思想并培养学生独立思考、知识渊博、推理清晰、批判性分析和善于说服的伟大作家特质。

　　赛事是由位于英国牛津大学的独立教育组织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。

　　John Locke是每年申请“爬藤选手”中最最热门的比赛之一，每年暑期吸引了全球最擅长思考和写作的中学生，评委由牛津大学教授组成，往届优胜者遍布哈耶普斯牛剑世界名校。

　　官网链接：

　　https://www.johnlockeinstitute.com/essay-competition

　　比赛内容

　　比赛共分为哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理、法律、神学七大方向，每个方向各提供3个题目。此外，针对14岁以下的学生还设有低龄组，低龄组提供5个题目。学生需要在选题公布后选择某个方向的某个题目进行论文撰写。

　　论文要求

　　文章本质属于argumentative essay议论文，注重考察学生以下几方面的能力：

　　1.能够对所选话题有深入的了解和研究；

　　2.熟悉议论文写作格式和要求，包括基本的框架和流程；

　　3.整体写作能力，包括语言表达、逻辑体系、语言风格、语法问题、规范格式等。

　　每篇文章应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）。

　　评价标准

　　论文将根据知识水平和对相关材料的理解、证据的有效使用、论证的质量、结构、写作风格和说服力来评判。

　　适合人群

　　从上文提到的参赛人数和获奖率可见该比赛的竞争压力之大，因此，推荐给善于思考、有批判性思维、无阅读外文文献书籍压力，且想锻炼自己学术写作能力的同学来参加！

　　参赛资格

　　任何国家的学生都可以报名。在提交截止日期，即2023年6月30日，候选人必须在18周岁及以下；低年级组参赛学生在提交截止日期必须在14周岁及以下。

　　2023年比赛时间节点

　　2023 年 3 月 15 日：注册参加比赛

　　2023 年 5 月 31 日：注册截止日期

　　2023年6月30日：提交截止日期

　　2023 年 7 月 10 日：延迟报名截止日期（延迟报名需支付 20.00美元的费用，并于 7 月 1 日之前支付。）

　　2023年7月31日：通知入围候选人

　　2023年9月：学术会议颁奖晚宴

　　接下来，让我们来看看最最重点的部分--论文题目。

2023年John Locke论文竞赛论文题目

　　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?

　　低龄组题目（不分学科方向）

　　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?

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