LAST EDITED ON 09-22-05 AT 03:40 PM (EST)Just found this article on another site, and thought it was interesting, since it mentioned John Locke (not the Lost one, but still, same name), someone named Rousseau...and some other things that could be considered connections to the show. Just found it interesting and thought you all might, as well.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1814
ETA: Dummy me, forgot the link.
Hello, I have been thinking about the significance of these names myself since I started watching the show this summer (I realized mid-season that I was missing a good thing, and had to wait for it to start over!). I am sure there is significance to the usage of the names Locke and Rousseau. Your link gives great information, but the summary is basically this:-Locke believed in the tabula rasa ("everyone gets to start over on the island"), that people are fundamentally good until their environments instill other things in them. I think our John Locke fits this exactly.
-Rousseau's early theory of the "noble savage" basically agreed with this, but he then changed it to say that men/nature are fundamentally corrupt, and that only laws and society can save them. Someone on another board (can't remember where now) said this might be why our Rousseau felt it was ok to kill off her team. I don't know how it relates just yet myself.
On a sidenote, the episode "Deux ex Machina" probably relates to Descartes' idea of the ghost in the machine.
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