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Originally Posted by waves
found out Desmond's last name is Hume!!!
Locke and Hume, well go figure! 
So why then Desmond instead of David... I suppose further along I'll find out he changed his name or something.... |
Well, well well, "or something" indeed:
From the transcript of
"Flashes Before Your Eyes" (S3 Ep8)
[Desmond in a second-hand shop]
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MS. HAWKING: Well, I know your name ... And if you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single one of us is dead.
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So we have both John Locke and David Hume, two major empiricists - if this doesn't have some meaning then one or more of the screenwriters were having a pretty good chuckle when they decided these names.
I don't know anything about Rousseau's philosophy I'm afraid, I'd have to look it up, so I'll leave that aside for now. Also that is only a single last name. I'd have to research possible relationship matches... like a daughter or wife called Danielle.
I can deal with the presence of a name being incidental or coincidental, especially just a last name. Indeed at first, I thought "John" was just a common enough name and that "Locke" was a cute pun with his fighting with the "locked" hatch. But now, we have
two characters with the full names of two contemporary and historically relevant empiricists.
NOW this is really bugging me, though!
John Locke and David Hume are both primary figures in the development of the
empirical thinking used in science today.
While their philosophies have slight differences, neither refutes God
or Faith - in fact these aspects are integral to both philosophies. Yet, the episode "
Man of Science, Man of Faith",
seems to want to point to distinct attributes of Jack and Locke (respectively) but in fact both would apply to Locke the philosopher... IN that order. I may have to review the transcript to see if what is attributed to Jack is more intrinsic to episode content, or more of an interpretation we are "encouraged" to have at that point in the series.
Oh dear I suppose we could write an essay on the similarities and differences... especially if we go fishing for similarities.... this is so bizarre.
Btw, Hume, the philosopher,
was Scottish, just like "our Desmond".
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Am I starting to sound like a broken record?
Did you notice these two figures / the empiricist parallel before?
What did you / do you make of it - if anything?
~ waves ~