John Locke約翰洛克寫作比賽2023年題目已經(jīng)公布好幾天了，今年計(jì)劃參加的同學(xué)是不是已經(jīng)開始醞釀寫作框架了呢？John Locke比賽較往年來看參賽人數(shù)越來越多，競爭肯定越來越激烈，新賽季規(guī)則有什么變化呢？一起和犀牛教育看看

● 2020年: 投稿約3000, 入圍率約26%;

● 2021年: 投稿約4000, 入圍率約23%;

● 2022年: 投稿約7000, 入圍率約20%.

圖源 | John Locke官網(wǎng)統(tǒng)計(jì)

JohnLocke不僅受到文商社科申請者們的追捧, 理工科選手為了能在千篇一律的申請材料中殺出重圍, 成為英美頂尖學(xué)府越來越向往的文理兼修人才, 也紛紛加入其陣營.

圖源 | John Locke官網(wǎng)統(tǒng)計(jì)

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JohnLocke寫作競賽是真正的「牛劍藤校加速器」, 2023年參賽人數(shù)無疑也將繼續(xù)增加, 入圍率也將持續(xù)走低, 競爭只會(huì)更加激烈.

參賽選手連年暴漲, 投稿作品越來越多, 想要更大概率地戰(zhàn)勝競爭對手, 就需要拿出「更好的更高水平的」作品, 獲得評(píng)審導(dǎo)師的青睞.

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，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？

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?

如果中國成為主要超級(jí)大國，這對生活在那里的人意味著什么？對其他人意味著什么？

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

你的國家和近鄰國家的政治腐敗程度不同的原因是什么？

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?   

政府通過對人口征稅來資助自己的支出。相反，假設(shè)它僅僅依靠中央銀行新創(chuàng)造的資金？優(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.

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)。

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?

如果國際貿(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?

如果我們禁止億萬富翁，會(huì)發(fā)生什么？

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

現(xiàn)在的英國人比沒有英國殖民主義影響的英國人富?；蜇毟F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？

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

幸?？梢员缓饬繂?？

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？

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？

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？

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？

論文寫作注重邏輯和內(nèi)容，優(yōu)秀的成績離不開導(dǎo)師和學(xué)生的共同努力。

在John Locke論文競賽準(zhǔn)備時(shí)，擁有一名優(yōu)秀的導(dǎo)師進(jìn)行輔導(dǎo)將對學(xué)生擁有極大的幫助。