Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough (23 page)

responsibility for actions outside our own

See also
authority

praise

for biologically influenced personality

for predestined actions

predestination.
See
free will

prequels

Princess Ashe, in
Final Fantasy XII

procreation, and fear of death

proletariat

purification rituals

Queen Brahne, in
Final Fantasy IX

“The Question Concerning Technology” (Heidegger)

Rat Kid, in
Final Fantasy IX

readers, in production of text

reason

in judging art

Kefka’s excess of

reductionism
vs.
mechanism

religion

abolition of

anthropocentric worldviews in

death of God

development of concept of evil in

effects of

effects of belief in heaven

existentialism on

in
Final Fantasy X

Japan’s fear of Christianity

serving political purposes

values of nobility
vs.
peasants in

veracity of

responsibility

for biologically influenced personality

in existentialism

from free will

moral

for predestined actions

rigid designators, names as

Rome, religion serving political purposes in

Ross, Floyd Hiat

RPGs

party-based
vs.
strategy-based

players’ identification with characters in

popularity of

Russell, Bertrand

sacrifice

by
Final Fantasy
characters

of self

of Summoners

in utilitarianism

Yuna refusing

Yuna’s

Sakaguchi Hironobu

Sartre, Jean-Paul

existentialism of

on paradox of freedom

on self-deception

Savonarola

Scipio Africanus

Searle, John

Sector 7 slums, in
Final Fantasy VII

Seifer, in
Final Fantasy VIII

self-interest.
See
altruism,
vs.
self-interest

semiology

Sephiroth, in
Final Fantasy VII

Cloud
vs.

viciousness of

Shinra Corporation, in
Final Fantasy VII

assassination of president of

AVALANCHE
vs.

classism of

compared to capitalism

objectifying Gaia

Shinto: The Way Home
(Kasulis)

Shinto: The Way of Japan
(Ross)

Shinto spirituality

essentialist

in
Final Fantasy VII

kami
concept in

on modernization

State

tsumi
concept in

signifiers

of
Final Fantasy
characters

for gamers
vs.
players

interpretations of

preset

reinterpretation of

sources of

in writerly
vs.
nonwriterly texts

Sin, in
Final Fantasy X

defeat of

unable to be destroyed

Yuna
vs.

social contract

society

Heroes’ ability to change in

individuals’ ability to change

political structure of

roles within

SOLDIER, Cloud as

Spira, in
Final Fantasy X

desire for Calm

religion in

role of Summoners in

The Spirits Within

Gaia and the environment in

Lifestream in

Squall Leonhart, in
Final Fantasy VIII

as Leon in
Kingdom Hearts I
and
II

Square Enix corporation, control of
Final Fantasy XI Online
by

Suikoden,
as party-based and strategy-based

Summoners, in
Final Fantasy X

blamed for Sin

dependence on

goals of

religion of

sacrifice of

sending spirits to Farplane

Superman 64,
compared to
Final Fantasy VII

technology

magic
vs.

nature
vs.

rejected in
Final Fantasy X

Terra Branford, in
Final Fantasy VI

text

created through players’ identification

different perspectives on

writerly

Theses on Feurebach
(Marx)

Tidus, in
Final Fantasy X
and X-2

goals of

self-interest
vs.
altruism of

Tifa, in
Final Fantasy VII

Treatise of Man
(Descartes)

tsumi
concept, in Shinto spirituality

Übermensch, Kefka as

utilitarianism

inconsistencies in
Final Fantasy
series

on objectification

Utilitarianism
(Mill)

Vaan, in
Final Fantasy XII

values

choosing

of nobility
vs.
peasants

objective

Vivi Orunitia’s

Vana’diel, characters’ proper functions on

video games

Final Fantasy I
in infancy of

quality of art in

Vincent, in
Dirge of Cerberus

Vincent Valentine, in
Advent Children

violence

virtue ethics

Aristotle’s

Nietzsche’s

on objectification

two perspectives on

Vivi Orunitia, in
Final Fantasy IX

creation of

on deaths

procreation of

values of

Wakka, in
Final Fantasy X

Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi

worlds

Final Fantasy
’s not connected

humans’ inseparability from

importance to characters

writerly texts, multiple signifiers in

Wutai, in
Final Fantasy VII

Yevon, in
Final Fantasy X

abolition of

based on lie

Yoshinori, Kitase

Yuffie, in
Final Fantasy VII

Yuna, in
Final Fantasy X
and
X-2

altruism of

Zack, in
Final Fantasy VII

Zidane Tribal, in
Final Fantasy IX