This is from the new TV Guide:
What's in a Name? So the Frenchwoman with the 16-year-long distress signal is alive and living on the island and she's named Danielle Rousseau. Is her surname a nod to the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rosseau? "That's exactly who we named her after," admits Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof. Makes sense. Rousseau believed in the noble savage, the idea that humans were good and equal in the state of nature but were corrupted by property, science and commerce. Adds Lindelof, "Every single name on the show has purpose and meaning."
Tonight I heard Locke state that his first name is John, which ran a big bell.
John Locke was a famous philosopher, who believed that all knowledge comes to us through experience. "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." He believed that there is no such thing as moral precepts; that we are born with an empty mind, with a soft tablet (tabula rasa) ready to be writ upon by experimental impressions. Beginning blank, the human mind acquires knowledge through the use of the five senses and a process of reflection. Not only has Locke's empiricism been a dominant tradition in British philosophy, but it has been a doctrine which with its method, experimental science, has brought on scientific discoveries ever since, scientific discoveries on which our modern world now depends.
Makes me wonder what Boone's first name is...
--- Ginny
