John Locke寫作競賽放題了？這些往年真題先練起來！

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

一個科學家小組想探索他們有多少種性別，應(yīng)該如何進行？

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

從哪種意義上說，你今天和你十歲時是同一個人？

Q3. Is tax theft? 

稅是不是偷竊的？

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)貴的計劃和他們的錯誤對歷史影響更大？

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

哪些特征將成功的社會變革運動與失敗的社會變革區(qū)分開來？

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

幸福可以被衡量嗎？

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?

在美國進行的調(diào)查中，超過一半的受訪者明顯表示，他們認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？

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

選舉結(jié)果是否表達了人民的意愿？

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. 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，但幾乎每個人都錯了？

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

為什么約翰·洛克有時被稱為自由主義之父？

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)點和/或缺點是什么？ 

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?

David Friedman在他的思想實驗《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)。

如果國際貿(mào)易因此是一種利用價值較低的投入生產(chǎn)更有價值的產(chǎn)出的方式，那么政府為什么會施加關(guān)稅和配額等貿(mào)易壁壘，從而迫使生產(chǎn)者更加浪費和效率低下？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

如果我們禁止億萬富翁，會發(fā)生什么？

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？