

人文社科競賽天花板 John Locke 寫作競賽最新放出了2025年的競賽主題!作為含金量超高的國際征文比賽之一,約翰洛克具有極高的關(guān)注度,基本已經(jīng)成為“名校申請種子選手”的必沖項。下面托普仕老師就給大家分享一下2025年John Locke競賽題目。
一、哲學(Philosophy)
Q1. What moral obligations do we owe to living persons that we do not owe to future persons? What are the implications of your answer for policy-making?我們對現(xiàn)世之人負有的道德義務(wù),是否有任何是未來之人不享有的?您的答案對政策制定有何影響?
Q2. Should we treat non-human animals well because they have rights, interests, neither, or both?我們應(yīng)該善待非人類動物是因為它們享有權(quán)利,還是因為它們有利益?或者既不是,也不只是?
Q3. "When civilians are the main target, there's no need to consider the cause. That's terrorism; it's evil." Is this correct?“當平民成為主要攻擊目標時,根本無需考慮其動機。這就是恐怖主義,是邪惡的?!?這種說法正確嗎?
二、政治學(Politics)
Q1. Should politicians ever be punished for lying?政治家因撒謊而受到懲罰是否合理?
Q2. David Hume celebrated the wisdom of "unlettered men". In a democracy, do the votes of the unlettered tend to protect a country against the bad ideas of the lettered or do the votes of the lettered tend to protect a country against the bad ideas of the unlettered?大衛(wèi)·休謨(David Hume)稱贊“未受教育者的智慧”。在民主制度下,未受教育者的選票是否有助于保護國家免受受教育者的不良觀念影響,還是受教育者的選票能夠保護國家免受未受教育者的不良觀念影響?
Q3. Diversity is fashionable, but is it valuable?多元化很流行,但它有價值嗎?
三、經(jīng)濟學(Economics)
Q1. What kinds of behaviour are engendered by the hope of profit? Is such behaviour better or worse, on balance, than the behaviour we should expect if all enterprises were owned by charities or governments? 追逐利潤的希望會激發(fā)哪些行為?與所有企業(yè)由慈善機構(gòu)或政府擁有的情況下應(yīng)當期待的行為相比,這種行為總體上是更好還是更壞?
Q2. What will be the effect on socio-economic mobility of the UK government's plan to impose value added tax on school fees?英國政府對學校學費征收增值稅的計劃將對社會經(jīng)濟流動性產(chǎn)生何種影響?
Q3. Should Oxford lower its admissions standards for the sons and daughters of generous benefactors?牛津大學是否應(yīng)該降低對慷慨捐助者子女的錄取標準?
四、歷史學(History)
Q1. According to Bertrand Russell, "Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill of Locke." To what extent was he correct?伯特蘭·羅素(Bertrand Russell)曾說:“希特勒源于盧梭,而羅斯福和丘吉爾源于洛克?!?他的觀點在多大程度上是正確的?
Q2. Should anyone be ashamed of their nation's history? Should anyone be proud of it?任何人是否應(yīng)該為自己的國家歷史感到羞恥?是否應(yīng)該為之感到自豪?
Q3. Which figure in history did most to enlarge human freedom?歷史上哪位人物對人類自由的擴展貢獻最大?
五、法律(Law)
Q1. What injury should one person be permitted to inflict on another in the defence of private property?在保護私人財產(chǎn)的過程中,一個人應(yīng)被允許對他人造成哪些傷害?
Q2. “Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?” Should the law treat offenders better than they deserve?“對待每個人都按其應(yīng)得的標準,那么誰能逃脫鞭笞呢?”(莎士比亞)法律是否應(yīng)當比罪犯所“應(yīng)得的”更仁慈?
Q3. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal?弗拉基米爾·普京是戰(zhàn)爭罪犯嗎?
六、心理學(Psychology)
Q1. Is objectivity all in the mind?客觀性僅僅是人們頭腦中的概念嗎?
Q2. Eleanor Roosevelt declared, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Is she right?埃莉諾·羅斯福(Eleanor Roosevelt)曾說:“沒有你的同意,沒人能讓你感到自卑?!? 她的觀點正確嗎?
Q3. What is self-deceit?自欺(self-deceit)是什么?
八、神學(Theology)
Q1. Is atheism implausible?無神論是否站不住腳?
Q2. Why would the creator of a trillion galaxies become angry if you have sex with your boyfriend or eat bacon for breakfast?為什么一個創(chuàng)造了萬億個星系的造物主會因為你和男友發(fā)生性關(guān)系或早餐吃培根而憤怒?
Q3. Why pray?祈禱的意義是什么?
九、青少年獎(JUNIOR Prize,15歲以下)
Q1. Your citizenship at birth was chosen for you. Which citizenship would you have chosen?你的出生國籍是被決定的。如果可以選擇,你會選擇哪一個?
Q2. Do you benefit more from your own freedom of speech or from other people’s?你是從自己的言論自由中受益更多,還是從他人的言論自由中受益更多?
Q3. Who is more powerful - Donald Trump or Elon Musk?誰更有權(quán)力——唐納德·特朗普(Donald Trump)還是埃隆·馬斯克(Elon Musk)?
Q4. What is your fair share of what someone else has earned?你應(yīng)獲得的“公平份額”應(yīng)如何計算?
Q5. Why do you continue to use your smartphone more than is good for you?為什么你仍然使用智能手機,盡管你知道這對你不利?
Q6. Why do people become more boring as they grow up and grow older? 為什么人們隨著年齡增長變得越來越無聊?
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