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Originally Posted by afa
I have no idea what the inspiration of the characters' names were.
It's possible they got the name as a sort of homage to the philosopher, but I don't know which aspects of the character are supposed to reflect the former's ideologies.
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Many LOST characters were named after philosophers or writers - John Locke being the most obvious example.
Others:
Kate Austen (note spelling of last name)
Charlotte S. Lewis
Desmond David Hume
Mrs. Hawking
Mikhail Bakunin
Jeremy Bentham (Locke's alias)
Edmund Burke (Juliet's husband)
Rousseau (as previously mentioned)
Some others.
A list and description of some of them can be found
here.
I find it amusing that to most people John Locke is that guy on LOST, rather than the man on whose philosophy is based the founding principles of American democracy.
What DO they teach them in those schools nowadays?