John Locke Global Essay Competition

比赛日期

2025年 約翰·洛克 全球论文竞赛

注册期间:2025 年 4 月 1 日 ~ 2025 年 5 月 31 日
文章提交截止日期:2025 年 4 月 1 日 ~ 2025 年 6 月 30 日 (英国时间 11:59 PM)
延迟提交截止:7 天延迟提交 -- 2025 年 7 月 7 日(缴交 £25 迟交费用)

21 天延迟提交 -- 2025 年 7 月 21 日(缴交 £75 迟交费用)

(需在错过原截止日 24小时内完成支付迟交费)

比赛单位介绍
John Locke Insitute 是一所独立的教育机构,总部位于英国牛津,致力于提升学生的批判性思维、分析能力和学术表达能力,为未来的学术和职业生涯作好准备。
学院以英国哲学家 John Locke (1632-1704)命名,他是启蒙时代的重要思想家,被誉为自由主义之父,对政治、哲学和教育领域影响深远。


比赛资格与注意事项

  • 不限国籍,全球中学生皆可免费报名参赛
    ▴ 一般组:于截稿日(6/30)前,未满 18岁之中学生
    ▴ 初级组:于截稿日(6/30)前,未满 14岁之中学生
  • 参赛者需于 2025 年 5 月 31 日前完成注册
  • 注册完成后才可提交文章(截止日:2025 年 6 月 30 日 英国时间11:59PM)
  • 提交文章需依照规定格式以及规定档名(内文不可出现参赛者姓名)
  • 每位参赛者须提供一位学术推荐人(学校老师、非亲属学术人士)的Email,做为身份验证
  • 错过原截稿日,可付费递交:
    7 天延迟提交 -- 2025 年 7 月 7 日(缴交 £25 迟交费用)
    21 天延迟提交 -- 2025 年 7 月 21 日(缴交 £75 迟交费用)

    (需在错过原截止日 24小时内完成支付迟交费)

适合人群

  • 计划申请顶尖大学申请的中学生
  • 目标透过学术活动提升背景竞争力的同学
  • 锻炼严谨的学术写作能力、逻辑分析、与论证能力
  • 期望建立来自全球的学术人脉,以拓展国际视野

比赛亮点

  • 享誉全球的国际赛事:获奖不仅将获得证书,更能获得证书,对大学申请大大加分
  • 多元化学科选择:鼓励跨学科思维与批判能力
  • 提升批判性思维与写作能力:训练论证技巧、逻辑思维、学术写作;且将获得专业评审回馈,提升学术写作水平
  • 学术交流:入围者将可参加伦敦的学术议会与颁奖晚宴,可与著名学者、评审团、全球优秀学生交流

比赛奖项

  • 各主题类别冠军(包含 初级赛):可获 证书及价值 $5,000美元奖学金,用于参加学院课程
  • 各主题类别第二名:可获 证书及价值 $2,000美元奖学金
  • 各主题类别第三名:可获 证书及价值 $1,000美元奖学金
  • 全场最佳论文:将获颁 荣誉初级研究员奖$10,000美元奖学金,可用于参加学院夏令营 or 访问学者计划
  • 各竞赛主题 最佳论文奖:获颁 嘉奖与证书,并入围最终项评选名单

注意事项

  • 比赛有 专用评分系统进行评审
  • 多种方法检测学术不端行为,包括:
    • ​​​​​​抄袭 (Plagiarism)、代写 (Contract Cheating)、AI 生成内容 (AI-Generated Content)等
  • 评判标准:
    • 对相关材料的知识与理解
    • 证据的运用能力
    • 论点的质量与原创性
    • 结构、写作风格与说服力
  • 优秀论文特点:
    • 具备改变读者观点的能力
    • 能够有效回应最强而有力的反方意见与观点
    • 精准且直接回答问题,避免模糊或偏题的论述​

竞赛主题

  • 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?
  • 政治学
    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?
  • 经济学
    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?
  • 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?
  • 法学

    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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 初级赛

    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?