Philosophy Games

[Sigma_Tau_Theta]

Games and Interactive Activities

These are some games I have found surfing the internet a while back, I find them quite fun. Here are the titles:

Battleground God - Will your beliefs about God and religion survive on our intellectual battlefield? Now's your chance to find out!

In the Face of Death - Is murder sometimes justified?

Should You Kill the Fatman? - Do you have consistent moral intuitions?

You're Being Tortured In The Morning - Who exactly is it who is being tortured?

Should You Kill the Fatman? - Do you have consistent moral intuitions?

Talking with God - Can you navigate your way through the Euthyphro dilemma?

Do-It-Yourself Deity - Can you construct the perfect God? We somehow doubt it!

Whose Body Is It Anyway? - Who has rights over your body?

The Philosophical Health Check - Is your thinking up to scratch? Take our philosophical health check to find out.

Elementary, My Dear Wason? - Most people will fail this simple logic test. Will you be one of them?

Stayling Alive - Do you have what it takes to stay alive? Find out in our game of personal identity.

Taboo - Moral judgements, chickens and the yuk-factor. How do you measure up?

Morality Play - How do your moral judgments match up against those of other people? How broad a range of moral principles do you invoke when making moral judgments? Find out about your moral framework here.

Britney Spears vs. Shakespeare - What is art? Which artists produce the greatest works of art? Discover the answers here.

Strange New World - Are you brave enough?


Have fun

[Charlatan]

I like the "Whose body is it anyway?" idea.

Are you property in a capitalist country? Governments will fly choppers to the ends of the world to protect you and rescue you from hazards, but if you just take a walk outside into the street, you will see many poor people that need rescuing.

I think it comes down to whether or not you pay taxes, or, public image.

Whether you want to admit it or not, it is not your body, but, it is not the place of the politicians to be invincible, so it is not thier body either, as they need your votes.

[LonMcGregor]

"Whose body is it anyway?"
Arguably, it belongs to the very first human beings as they created someone who in turn.... ,,, created you.
So by that logic, everyone's body belongs to everyone else.

Pity that some people try to take this to their advantage.

[Dismay]

I like the do it yourself deity one.

[mbc85]

not at all surprised with the results on the god part.

[mbc85]

i aced the morality test. no surprised there either. i let a million people die.

[mbc85]

god did not like me at all lol

[mbc85]

aced the epidemic one.

[lakehaze]

Whose body? Not impressed. Yeah, I'm pro choice, but their robotic conclusion as to my ethics being in-line because I don't value a fetus' life is way off. I stumbled through that test answering as honestly as I could about alien pod-people, but that has nothing to do with babies. Do the pod people need loving parental support for 18+ years? Unknown.

I am simply pro choice because I value quality of life over quantity. I would also take the death penalty over a life sentence in prison for the same reason. This test was way off when it comes to me and my train of thought.

[Selmar]

These are some interesting games to play and think about, thanks for sharing!

[FriedrichSeneca]

The first test, about God, has a glitch.
I was hit for saying that :

"Earlier you claimed that it is justifiable to base one's beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction, regardless of the external evidence, or lack of it, for the truth or falsity of this conviction. But now you say that it is foolish to believe in God without certain, irrevocable proof that God exists. A firm, inner conviction can never be certain proof, since we know that people have firm inner convictions about things which are false."

Duh. One shouldn't think of a "firm inner conviction" as a merely emotional "I believe!"; faith has nothing to do with a priori proofs of the existence of God. Where does faith acts in the ontological argument?

Also:

You say that God does not have the freedom and power to do impossible things such as create square circles, but in an earlier answer you said that any being which it is right to call God must be free and have the power to do anything.

God is free in that he is determined by nothing but its own nature. Unless such a nature implies acting against logic and its own nature, God wouldn't create square circles, whatever that may mean, no more than he could make himself a limited and ontologically dependent being.

[Synalon Etuul]

The first test, about God, has a glitch.
I was hit for saying that :

Duh. One shouldn't think of a "firm inner conviction" as a merely emotional "I believe!"; faith has nothing to do with a priori proofs of the existence of God. Where does faith acts in the ontological argument?

Also:



God is free in that he is determined by nothing but its own nature. Unless such a nature implies acting against logic and its own nature, God wouldn't create square circles, whatever that may mean, no more than he could make himself a limited and ontologically dependent being.

The latter problem you had I would agree is down to bad wording on the part of whoever made the game. What they mean to ask is whether or not God can do 'impossible' things, like find an even prime number greater than 2. Of course, the way it is written in the game does not illuminate this at all.