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Trinity College, Cambridge
Questions:
If you learn that humanity will be extinct in twenty years, what difference should it make to what you value?
Could you be friends with a robot?
Deadline
Sunday 31 May 2020
Note
Y12 entry only
St Hugh's, Oxford
The Mary Renault Prize
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted.
Deadline
Friday 24th July 2020
The John Locke Institute
Philosophy
Q1. Is intuition to philosophy as observation is to science?
Q2. Are there circumstances under which an employer has a moral duty to pay her employee more than they agreed in the employment contract?
Q3. Can good art make one a better person? (Professor Roger Teichman, University of Oxford)
Deadline
Wednesday 15 July 2020
The John Locke Institute
Theology
Q1. According to C.S. Lewis, 'a man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.' If Jesus was not God Incarnate, what was he?
Q2. Many people have committed acts, execrated and deplored by others, in obedience to sincerely held beliefs. Can we reasonably ask anyone to do better than simply to obey his own conscience?
Q3. Is Islam a religion of peace?
Deadline
Wednesday 15 July 2020
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