终于等到万众期待的2025年Johnlocke论文写作竞赛终于放题啦！📝
约翰·洛克论文竞赛（John Locke Essay Competition）是由英国牛津的独立教育机构John Locke Institute联合牛津大学、普林斯顿大学、布朗大学等世界顶尖学府教授共同举办的学术写作赛事。这项被誉为"人文社科领域含金量最高的中学生竞赛"每年吸引全球数千名高中生参与角逐。
赛事通过哲学、政治、经济等七大核心学科领域的命题写作，系统考察参赛者的学科知识体系构建能力、学术议论文写作规范、独立思辨能力及逻辑论证水平。值得注意的是，这些能力维度与大学申请文书中展现的核心素质高度契合。
历届在Johnlocke赛事中表现优异的学子，往往更易获得牛津、剑桥、哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福等全球顶尖名校招生官的青睐，成为助力学生冲击全球顶尖名校的重要利器。
Johnlocke竞赛详情
竞赛形式
Essay competition共设有七大学科主题，分别为哲学、政治、经济、历史、法律、心理和神学，对于Senior组，每个主题设置3道提问；而低年级组则不细分主题，提供6个具体的写作题目。
参赛者必须在截止日期前提交一篇2000字以下的命题论文（不包括图表、数据表、尾注、参考书目或作者声明）；也可以提交多篇文章，即一个题目对应一篇文章。
参赛条件
无国籍限制，无学校限制，均可参赛
Junior组年龄要求：年满14周岁或以下
Senior组年龄要求：年满18周岁或以下
时间安排
注册开放时间：2025年4月1日
注册截止日期：2025年5月31日（在此日期之前需要登记才能提交后续申请）
提交截止日期：2025年6月30日
迟交截止日期：2025年7月7日（延长7天）或2025年7月21日（延长21天）
入围公布通知：2025年7月31日
学术会议：2025年10月3日至5日
颁奖典礼晚宴：2025年10月4日
奖项设置
最高奖项Grand Prize，外加七个学术组别和junior组别的Winner、Second Prize、Third Prize，共计25个大奖，大奖获奖率为0.07%左右。
“Very High Commendation”的获奖率约为1%；“High Commendation”的获奖率预估为5%左右，两个奖的含金量都很高。
“Commendation/Merit”奖项获奖率预估为10%，体现了参赛者扎实的学术写作能力和不俗的学术实力。
2025年Johnlocke竞赛题目
1）Philosophy 哲学
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, there's no need to consider the cause. That's terrorism; it's evil." Is this correct?
2）Politics 政治
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?
3）Economics 经济
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 government's plan to impose value added tax on school fees?
Q3. Should Oxford lower its admissions standards for the sons and daughters of generous benefactors？
4）History 历史
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 nation's history? Should anyone be proud of it?
Q3. Which figure in history did most to enlarge human freedom?
5）Law 法律
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?
6）Psychology 心理学
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?
7）Theology 神学
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?
8）Junior组
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. What is your fair share of what someone else has earned?
Q5. Why do you continue to use your smartphone more than is good for you?
Q6. Why do people become more boring as they grow up and grow older?
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