每年，John Locke Institute 都会吸引来自世界各地的优秀中学生参与这场高水平的学术写作竞赛。
作为全球最负盛名的中学生论文竞赛之一，John Locke 写作比赛不仅考验选手的逻辑思辨、批判性思维和学术表达能力，更是申请顶尖大学时极具分量的学术竞赛之一。
2025 年的比赛放题已经正式公布，今年的题目涵盖哲学、经济学、历史、政治、心理学、法律和神学等多个学科方向，每一道题目都引导学生深入思考现实世界中的复杂问题。
那么，今年的赛题有哪些亮点？不同学科的题目各自关注哪些热点？快来一起看看吧~
John Locke 2025年赛题公布
哲学｜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, there's no need to consider the cause. That's terrorism; it's evil." Is this correct?
政治｜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?
经济｜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 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｜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 nation's history? Should anyone be proud of it?
Q3. Which figure in history did most to enlarge human freedom?
法学｜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?
心理学｜Psychology
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｜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?
低年龄组｜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?
John Locke 2025年赛事详情
重要时间点
注册开始：2025年4月1日
注册截止：2025年5月31日
提交截止：2025年6月30日
逾期参赛截止时间：2025年7月7日或7月21日
入围公布：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
2、适合学生
任何国家的学生都可以参加。在截止提交日期2025年6月30日前，参赛者须年满18岁或以下。
Junior奖的选手年龄要求是必须在14岁或以下。
3、文章要求
每篇文章只能讨论所选择的学科类别中的一个问题，但可以在不同领域中提交多篇文章，每篇不得超过2000字（不包括图表、数据表、脚注、参考书目或作者声明）
提交论文要通过John Locke官网的链接，需要将文档改成PDF格式提交，标题要遵循名字、姓氏、学科、问题编号的顺序。
4、赛事奖项
☞Grand Prize：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。
☞学科领域奖：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。
☞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。
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