Movie philosophy
This character believes the main purpose in life is having legs.
Who is the Little Mermaid?
Diogenes was known as a cynic, which comes from the Greek word for this kind of animal.
What is a dog?
The field of game theory is a subfield of this study, which seeks to better understand the way humans in groups interact.
What is sociology?
Players shoot one another in a Utilitarian-style stadium for fleeting glory.
What is Fortnite?
This Utilitarian movie features a communist archer fighting against a dystopian government.
What is The Hunger Games?
Utilitarians believe that this is the definition of a good act.
What is the greatest good for the greatest number of people?
This game focuses on making good decisions, by pitting two criminals against one another indirectly.
What is "The Prisoner's Dilemma"?
This game is built around the fundamental belief that hard work in the act of creation is its own reward.
What is Minecraft?
In this movie, a few particularly strong people think that having that strength gives them the right to define justice on Earth for humans.
What is The Avengers?
Epicureans believe that this is the key to living a good life.
What is living a life that is enjoyable?
These are the two terms that describe decision-making under game theory. One suggests a decision is made logically, while the other suggests that logic goes (possibly) too far.
Name both for double points! Get one right and one wrong, and you'll break even. Get both wrong and lose double points.
What are rationality and superrationality?
This game series allows its players to explore violent and traditionally immoral acts for points and notoriety.
What is Grand Theft Auto?
Who is the Joker?
Hedonists believe this is the key to living a good life.
What is the avoidance of pain, and pursuit of pleasure?
Game theory makes a fundamental assumption: that people are primarily self-interested. Game theorists often discover that this concept tends to spoil their assumption.
What is altruism?
In this game, the player acts as a god outside the game, enforcing complete control over your subjects' lives, environment, and relationships.
What is The Sims?
In this movie, a girl and her friends are happy to commit murder if it gets them what they want, as long as their victim can be defined as a bad person.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
According to Cynics, this is the key to living a good life.
What is the avoidance of material things, and the refusal to be ashamed?
There are three useful conclusions reached when game theorists study gambling. Name one for 500, two for 1000, or three for 1500 points. Wrong answers will be penalized by 500 points each!
You must respond at least once, but no more than three times.
What are Sunk-cost fallacy, the break-even effect, and the Gambler's fallacy?
This game epitomizes futility, as one (or sometimes two) characters seek the attention of one pink princess, but always let her go.
What is Super Mario Brothers?
This movie questions the metaphysical reality of dreams vs waking reality.
What is Inception?
This philosopher famously shouted insults at people who passed by the barrel he lived in.
Who was Diogenes?
This TV game show reveals a lot about game theory.
What is Deal or No Deal?
This game character is forced into violence through the first gift he's ever given: a sword.
Who is Link?
In this movie, the perspective of the society is that people, at heart, require an opportunity to be violent and evil.
What is The Purge?
This philosopher suggested that the real world is like a cave, with ideal forms existing only outside of it.
Who was Plato?
This is the fallacy wherein a person reaches an extreme or false conclusion based on another person's statement, and then presents that conclusion as if it's equivalent to the original statement.
What is the Strawman fallacy?
This game ignores the morality of mistreating animals, as that is a central part of the game.
What is Pokemon?
This movie character has, several times recently, explored the possibility that the universe is composed of many dimensions.
Who is Spider-man?
This philosopher had one of our main schools of philosophy named directly after him (à la Stewardism).
Who was Epicurus?
In this logical fallacy, the speaker is accused of being a hypocrite.
What is ad hominem?
This game's speciesist leanings strongly disfavor pigs.
What is Angry Birds?
This movie explores the possibility of artificial intelligence developing sentience within an online game.
What is Free Guy?
This philosopher founded the Utilitarian school.
What was Jeremy Bentham?
This fallacy assumes that one thing will lead to another, then to another, then to another, ultimately ending in unavoidable disaster.
What is slippery slope?
One of many games that allows the player to pretend to fight from a first-person perspetive in a war, this one is also highly xenophobic.
What is HALO?
This movie character, whose name was inspired by a work of Karl Marx's, fundamentally believes in the belief that strength can enforce morality.
Who is Superman?
Name either the philosopher who suggested a teapot floating around in space, or the philosopher who described a wager that people make when deciding to believe in a god or not.
Name both for double points! Get one right and one wrong, and you'll break even. Get both wrong and lose double points.
Who are Bertrand Russell and Blaise Pascal?
This is the logical fallacy in which, instead of confronting the actual argument a person makes, I just insult the person instead.
What is tu quoque?
This game celebrates financial gain, requiring players to attempt to ruin one another monetarily, and then celebrate it.
What is monopoly?