含金量高的作文比赛：约翰洛克研究所JohnLockeInstitute 21年全球竞赛

2021 Global ESSAY Competition

高含金量的作文比赛推荐-- 约翰洛克研究所（John Locke Institute）2021年全球作文竞赛 

约翰洛克研究所（John Locke Institute）致力于培养优秀学生具备作家的如下特征：独立思考、知识渊博、推理清晰、批判性分析和说服能力。作文比赛邀请学生探索学校课程范围之外的一系列具有挑战性和有趣的问题。

参加这个论文比赛能够积累知识，并提高论证能力。学生有机会由专家来评定他们的工作。所有评委由牛津大学的资深学者组成，评委将从每个主题中选择他们喜爱的作品，主题包括哲学、政治、经济学、历史、心理学、神学和法律，并从这七个主题中评选出“最佳论文”。

Deadline for submissions for the 2021 competition is 

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 at 11:59pm, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

2021年竞赛的提交截止日期为

2021年6月30日（星期三），格林威治标准时间（GMT）晚上11:59，及北京时间7月1日7:59

 今年各科作文题目如下：

Philosophy

哲学

Q1. Are there some subjects about which we should not even ask questions?

Q2. What is slavery? Is jury duty? Is conscription? Is income tax?

Q3. Are you more moral than most people you know? How do you know? Should you strive to be more moral? Why or why not?

Politics

政治

Q1. Discrimination on the basis of race is widely condemned, but on the basis of nationality it is widely accepted. Is it not odd that you may not discriminate against me for where my great-great-grandparents were born, but you may discriminate against me for where my parents were born?

Q2. Should the John Locke Institute change its name?

Q3. Do we need Greta?

Economics

经济

Q1. How would the education sector change if governments were no longer involved?

Q2. There is considerable excess demand for undergraduate places at oxford. The admissions process rations supply by favouring cleverer students at the expense of others. Is this fair? Does it exacerbate inequality? What is the University’s optimal response to this scarcity?

Q3. Should we abolish the minimum wage?

History

历史

Q1. Should we judge those from the past by the standards of today? How will historians in the future judge us?

Q2. Has the ‘construct of gender’ been more beneficial or more harmful to humanity throughout history?

Q3. ‘More history has happened in Oxford, per square foot, than any other place in the world.’ Discuss.

Psychology

心理学

Q1. Do we do everything we do to maximise our own utility?

Q2. ‘The function of religions and cults, including the political or ideological ones, is to short-circuit the normal ‘common sense’ process of doubt, investigation, further doubt, further investigation… a belief system only requires a rule book (sacred scripture, Das Kapital, or whatever) and a good memory.’ Is this true? Does it matter?

Q3. Who is responsible for my mental health?

Theology

神学

Q1. Is Christianity a religion of peace?

Q2. Why did Jesus of Nazareth reserve his strongest condemnation for the self-righteous?

Q3. Did God create coronavirus?

Law

法律

Q1. Should ‘innocent until proven guilty’ apply not only to courts of law, but also to public censure?

Q2. To what extent does a codified constitution help or hinder liberty?

Q3. When should force of law prevent a transaction, entered into freely between two competent, consenting adults?

JUNIOR prize

青少年奖

Q1. Should we raise the voting age to 25?

Q2. Should the John Locke Institute change its name?

Q3. Is Oxford overrated?

Q4. Just because you’re a millionaire doesn’t mean you should get better healthcare than the rest of us, does it?

Q5. What should we do to improve the lives of poor people?

Q6. Have things improved?

Q7. Before a certain time almost everybody would have held some belief which we now find repugnant. Does this mean we cannot admire or commemorate the people who helped to shape the modern world?

Q8. Should the law ever prevent people from freely making self-harming decisions? If so, what should and shouldn’t be forbidden - and according to which principles?

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS & FURTHER DETAILS

参赛要求及详细信息

参赛要求：

比赛对来自所有国家和学校的学生开放。候选人必须在提交截止日期2021年6月30日当天18岁或18岁以下（初中奖候选人必须在提交截止日期当天14岁或14岁以下）。

文章只应回答所选主题类别中的一个问题，且不得超过2000个单词（不包括图表，数据表，脚注，参考书目或作者身份声明）。请通过我们的网站https://www.johnlockeinstitute.com/submit-essay提交pdf格式的论文。

重要日期：

提交截止日期：2021年6月30日，星期三：

通知入围候选人日期：7月14日，星期三：

获奖者将于9月在牛津颁奖典礼上宣布（日期待定）。

奖励：

从每个学科类别中选出一篇最佳论文。每个类别的获奖者和青少年级获奖者将获得2000美元的奖学金，用于参加约翰·洛克研究所的任何课程，论文将在该研究所的网站上发布。颁奖典礼将在牛津举行，获奖者和亚军将与约翰·洛克研究所的评委会成员及其他教职人员见面。也欢迎有条件前来的家人、朋友和老师参加。

最佳论文作者将获得约翰·洛克学院荣誉奖学金，10,000美元，可参加我们的一所或多所暑期学校和/或辅导课程。

评委的决定为最终决定，恕不受理任何信件。

评判标准：

论文将根据相关知识和理解水平、有效使用证据、论据的质量、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。

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