2025 Global ESSAY PRIZE
2025竞赛题目已经公布
让我们先来一睹为快~
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?
Q2. Should we treat non-human animals well because they have rights, interests, neither, or both?
Q3. “When civilians are the main target, theres no need to consider the cause. Thats terrorism; its evil.” Is this correct?
POLITICS
Q1. Should politicians ever be punished for lying?
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?
Q3. Diversity is fashionable, but is it valuable?
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?
Q2. What will be the effect on socio-economic mobility of the UK governments plan to impose value added tax on school fees?
Q3. Should Oxford lower its admissions standards for the sons and daughters of generous benefactors?
HISTORY
Q1. According to Bertrand Russell, “Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill of Locke.” To what extent was he correct?
Q2. Should anyone be ashamed of their nations history? Should anyone be proud of it?
Q3. Which figure in history did most to enlarge human freedom?
LAW
Q1. What injury should one person be permitted to inflict on another in the defence of private property?
Q2. “Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?” Should the law treat offenders better than they deserve?
Q3. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal?
PSYHOLOGY
Q1. Is objectivity all in the mind?
Q2. Eleanor Roosevelt declared, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Is she right?
Q3. What is self-deceit?
THEOLOGY
Q1. Is atheism implausible?
Q2. Why would the creator of a trillion galaxies become angry if you have sex with your boyfriend or eat bacon for breakfast?
Q3. Why pray?
JUNIOR PRIZE
Q1. Your citizenship at birth was chosen for you. Which citizenship would you have chosen?
Q2. Do you benefit more from your own freedom of speech or from other people’s?
Q3. Who is more powerful – Donald Trump or Elon Musk?
Q4. Since 1920, twenty-one presidents and prime ministers from nine countries have been graduates of Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) at Oxford. Would it have been better if they had studied history?
Q5. What is your fair share of what someone else has earned?
Q6. Why do you continue to use your smartphone more than is good for you?
Q7. Why do people become more boring as they grow up and grow older?
为什么它被称作「藤校隐形入场券」?
牛津大学官方
· 主办方为牛津大学独立研究中心,超60%评委来自牛津哲学、政治、经济(PPE)系
· 2024年John Locke写作竞赛的参赛人数为34,823人,获奖人数约为25人
升学数据实证
· 哈佛大学2023届新生调查:27%社科方向学生拥有John Locke参赛经历
· 2022年中国大陆获奖者中,92%被牛剑藤校录取
能力镀金池
· 批判性思维+跨学科分析双核心能力,直击IB/AP/A-Level文科高分痛点
John Locke「赛事背景」
John Locke论文竞赛被称为人文社科含金量最高的国际论文比赛之一,由位于英国牛津的独立教育组织 John Locke Institute与牛津、普林斯顿、布朗等大学的教授合作举办的学术写作比赛。旨在考核学生的独立思考能力、逻辑推理能力和批判性思维。
每年暑期,该比赛吸引了全球最擅长思考和写作的中学生参与。往届优胜者遍布哈佛、耶鲁、普林斯顿、牛津、剑桥等世界名校。
John Locke「赛事规则」
竞赛内容
共有七大学科主题,分别为哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理、神学和法律;对于高年级组,每个主题设置3道提问;低年级组则不细分话题,提供6个具体的写作题目,从中择一选择。
适合群体
任何国家和任何学校的学生均可参加,参赛者分为高年级组和低年级组;Junior组:提交论文时年满14周岁及以下;Senior组:提交论文时年满18周岁及以下。
论文规范
1、字数:正文内容不超过2000字(不包括图表、数据表、注释、参考文献和作者声明等)
2、pdf的文件名必须采用以下格式:FirstName-LastName-Category-QuestionNumber.pdf
评奖原则
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进行评判。建议考生尽可能准确、直接地回答问题。所有的论文奖都由牛津大学的资深学者评审。
奖项安排
1、Grand Prize (1名):获得John Locke Institute10,000美元的青年荣誉奖学金,可用于参加学院一个或多个 summer school或gap year课程。
2、学科领域奖(Winner、Second Prize、Third Prize各1名):每个学科选出一个最佳作品,可获得2000美元奖学金,用于覆盖John Locke学院任何课程的费用。
3、入围奖:年度各领域的优秀文章获得High Commendation入围奖。
优质论文将会收到推荐和提名,提名名单将于7月31日(GMT)公布。
提名者将会在10月份受邀到牛津参加邀请制学术会议和晚宴,同时将会公布冠军和一二三等奖(参会和晚宴费用自费,自愿参加)。
所有入围的参赛者和获奖者,都可以下载电子证书。如果参赛者获得一等奖、二等奖或三等奖,并前往伦敦参加颁奖晚宴,则将会收到一份签名证书。
John Locke「相关日期」
开启注册时间:2025年4月1日
注册截止日期:2025年5月31日
提交截止日期:2025年6月30日
逾期报名截止时间:2025年7月7日(延期 7 天)或2025年 7月21日(延期 21 天)
通知入围候选人时间:2025年7月31日
学术会议:2025年10月3日至5日
颁奖晚宴:2025年10月4日
—注:以上时间均为BST时间—
90%考生踩雷的致命规则
【时间管理雷区】
❌错过注册截止日期和投稿截止日期
【格式自杀行为】
❌ PDF命名格式错误
❌ 引用格式错误
【学术红线】
❌使用ChatGPT生成内容
❌合作没有写合作声明
【注意】
John Locke使用官方专用的评分系统。学生可能会被要求与约翰洛克研究所的教职员工讨论他们的参赛作品。
官方会使用各种手段来识别剽窃、合同作弊、使用人工智能和其他形式的欺诈行为。官方对所有此类事项的决定均为最终决定。
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